[pct-l] Search for Missing Hiker Called Off

[cvano at tmail.com]

Bad bad weather year for hikers.  I sure was lucky...
Only took SAR 36 hours to reach us.  At the rate I'm healing, I'm 
optimistic about taking another overnight or so before the snow is 
gone... in September.  C

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 8:03 am, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> I saw in the paper this morning:
>
> "The search for a hiker lost for over a week high in the snow-blanketed 
> San Bernardino Mountains was called off Sunday.  A man 62, Dean 
> Christy, made a cell phone call for help Jan. 4 when he became 
> disoriented in fog at an elevation of about 7,000 feet.  About 80 
> people combed the area near Green Valley Lake.  Rescuers were assisted 
> by four snow cats, three helicopters and five search dogs."
>
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Ol' Three Toes aka Chris
S/V Drifter ~~~_/)~~~
Anacortes, WA.