BEND, Ore. — A sheriff’s officer says that when three Pacific Crest Trail hikers from Spokane left a phone message with the trail association saying they had lost the trail in central Oregon and needed a return call, they had no idea their message would trigger a two-day search.
On Friday, Deschutes County sheriff’s search and rescue volunteers on horseback located the hikers, who were fine.
KTVZ-TV reported Deputy Jeff Winters says searchers from Deschutes and Lane counties also spent Thursday looking for the hikers.
Winters says efforts to return the call were unsuccessful, likely due to poor cellphone coverage.
Search coordinators decided after Thursday’s search that the hikers probably had been able to find the trail but two searchers headed out again Friday just in case.
Winters says Sarah Morris, Mary Zakheim and Angela Zakheim were OK and were “unaware their phone message had triggered any response from search and rescue.”
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