MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The disappearance of a hiker on Sauk Mountain has left Skagit County searchers in doubt.
Sheriff’s Deputy Will Reichardt says Patricia Kreiger most likely wandered off Saturday and got lost. But there’s some indication from search dogs she maybe walked out.
The search was suspended Monday. A volunteer helicopter pilot was still checking logging roads Tuesday.
Reichardt says the 65-year-old Mount Vernon woman and her fiance went up the mountain near Rockport in a group of a half-dozen people to spread the ashes of her fiance’s parents. She became separated from the group on the way down with her pet Rottweiler.
Kreiger was not equipped to stay out overnight. Temperatures on the 5,500-foot mountain have been below freezing.
