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Part of situation: Mount Shasta search and rescue operations (2 clusters)

Mount Shasta hikers rescued after 36-hour ordeal

Mount Shasta Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue California hiking Avalanche Gulch

Two hikers from Salt Lake City, a 19-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, were rescued after spending 36 hours stranded in freezing conditions on Mount Shasta in Northern California.

The pair had planned a single-day hike on Monday, Oct. 12, but became lost in the Avalanche Gulch area at approximately 11,000 feet. At the time of their initial distress call around 10:20 p.m., temperatures were between 14 and 16 degrees. The hikers were critically undersupplied, lacking adequate clothing, food, and water to survive the night.

After reaching Helen Lake at 10,400 feet around 2 a.m. Tuesday, their phones died, severing communication. The hikers eventually reached Horse Camp but lost the trail, wandering into a steep, dry river canyon. They traveled roughly three miles down the drainage before becoming trapped between cliffs measuring 30 to 50 feet high.

Search-and-rescue operations involving the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, and U.S. Forest Service volunteers continued throughout Tuesday. At approximately 4 p.m., searchers located the hikers in the Cascade Gulch area, about 1,000 feet from the McBride Springs Trail. Neither hiker sustained injuries during the ordeal.

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California Highway Patrol · Mount Shasta · Salt Lake City · Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office · U.S. Forest Service

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Two Utah hikers rescued after perilous 36-hour trek on Mt. Shasta [www.europesays.com]
Freezing Hikers Endure Bone-Chilling 36-Hour Ordeal on Notorious California Mountain [pulptastic.com]
Bone-chilling ordeal for freezing hikers stranded for 36-hours on notorious California mountain [offthepress.com]
Two Hikers Rescued After 36 Hours Lost on California’s Mount Shasta [internewscast.com]
Two Utah hikers rescued after perilous, freezing 36-hour trek on Mt. Shasta [www.latimes.com]