PORTLAND – Rescuers early Friday found a 29-year-old man who got lost while hiking in the Columbia River Gorge.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said search teams found him at about 3 a.m. The man was cold and wet but otherwise OK.
The hiker had called 9-1-1 more than 12 hours earlier to say he couldn’t find his way back to the Horsetail Falls trailhead. Deputies were able to get his general location from a cell phone ping, but the phone’s battery life was about to run out.
The man is an experienced hiker, but was unfamiliar with the Gorge.
