SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman caught by the tide while hiking on the Oregon coast spent hours trapped 100 feet above the Pacific before rescuers pulled her up the face of a cliff to safety.
Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin says Lisa Donnelly of Alpharetta, Ga., hoped to get a good view of Tillamook Head Lighthouse when she set out on her hike. But the incoming tide forced to scramble as far up Tillamook Head as she could Wednesday afternoon. She used a cell phone to call a friend, who alerted authorities.
Heavy fog forced a Coast Guard helicopter to abandon its rescue effort. So two local search and rescue volunteers rappelled 1,000 feet down the face of Tillamook Head and stayed with her Wednesday night. Crews pulled Donnelly to the top of the cliff Thursday morning. She was checked at a Seaside hospital but left with no apparent injuries.
