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B.C. search team rescues hiker from Golden Ears Mountains

Search and Rescue warns people to bring navigation tools into the back country

On Thursday evening, Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue saved a lone hiker who was lost in the mountains in Golden Ears Provincial Park.

Search team spokesperson Rick Laing said the hiker, a middle-aged woman, had summitted on the Golden Ears Mountains, but got lost on her way back. She made a wrong turn down a gully, and become stranded in the Alouette Valley between Golden Ears and Edge Peak.

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Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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