Hikers Recall Being Stranded in Forest
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As an experienced backpacker, Frank Horath knew to check the weather forecast before leaving on an overnight hike with family members to an alpine lake in the Sierra National Forest.
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Another winter, another scare on Oregon's Mt. Hood. As three stranded climbers return safely home, a closer look at the economics of search and rescue.
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Under a grove of pine and spruce trees, the children were lying on stretchers &#151; dazed, shaken, fragile, and bloodied. Parents hugged them tenderly, cried softly, gave them water. They were safe.
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By BILL TROTTER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  ACADIA NATIONAL PARK - There is a large scar on the eastern side of Champlain Mountain where an earthquake last fall shook loose a huge chunk of rock and sent it tumbling into the trees below.
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Thousands of residents of northern Japan camped outdoors, unnerved by a day of aftershocks from the nation's deadliest earthquake in a decade.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A San Francisco man who got stranded with his family in the snowy wilderness had taken a wrong turn in the car down a logging road that is normally blocked by a gate, but vandals had cut the lock, authorities said Friday.
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Two climbers who had refused offers to be helped off the face of Yosemite National Park&#39;s El Capitan relented today and are back on the ground at this hour.
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Heavy snow and high wind hampered efforts Wednesday to rescue at least 10 hikers who were stranded by an unusually early winter storm in the Sierra Nevada.
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Matthew Ramige remembers walking away after the small plane that carried him into the Montana wilderness crashed and burned.
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A father and his three children lost in the snowy California woods used sticks to spell out the word "Help" and warmed their feet inside each other's shirts to help stave off frostbite. They were spotted by a helicopter three days after getting lost while searching for a Christmas tree.
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With bad weather expected to descend on Mount Hood, the chance for the climbersâ survival is diminishing.
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HELENA, Mont.  - A woman who survived a plane  crash in Montana then hiked down a mountain was expected to  make a full recovery, while the other survivor, who made the  grueling trek with a fractured spine, was in good spirits but  awaiting surgery, officials said on Friday.
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HERE was a time, not so long ago in my more carefree youth, when I was a dedicated backpacker.   It went beyond the standard gapyear routine, and most summers I could be found in some distant corner of the globe, living the life of an adrenaline junkie.
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KÃHLUNGSBORN, Germany, June 6 â They lurked in the woods, fifty strong, wearing black hoods and bandannas, and wielding tree limbs. At a signal given by one of their number, they sprang forward and threw their debris across a road here, creating a barricade that brought traffic to a screeching halt.
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Two days after they were reported killed in a plane crash, two US Forest Service employees emerged from the wilderness, astonishing family members who had believed they were dead and
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Two climbers still missing on Mount Hood may have been swept to their deaths over a treacherous cliff by howling winds of more than 100 mph after they left their injured companion behind in a snow cave to get help.
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Russian rescuers on Friday saved 11 people stranded for nearly three months in a remote area of the Pacific coast after a fishing trip went wrong, local media reported.