Who: 20-year-old Kirsten Hillary Williams and her black lab
Where: South and Middle Sisters, part of the Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon
Her mistake: She got lost and was unprepared
What happened: A woman and her dog started a hike at 1 p.m. The plan was to summit the South Sister and Middle Sister of the Three Sisters in the, you guessed it, the Three Sisters Wilderness area.
For some reason, the woman was delayed and was hiking in the dark. At 9:30 p.m., the woman called her friend and told her she was north of the South Sister summit. The missing hiker had little food and water, a map and a lighter – but no compass and no flashlight. When the woman and her dog didn’t return home by 12:15 a.m., the friend called 911 to report an overdue hiker.
In the meantime, friends went into the Three Sisters to look for the missing hiker. Also, a team of Sherriff’s Search and Rescue members used ground teams, horse teams and choppers to search for her. The search continued throughout the night.
As temperatures dropped, the woman tried to burn her map for a warming fire, but she failed and continued to hike. After 25 miles of hiking, the woman found a road and flagged down a woodcutter who gave her a ride back into town. She called her friend from a payphone in town. She was tired, hungry and cold, but in otherwise good condition. She told her friend that her cell phone battery ran out shortly after she made the phone call last night.
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