YAKIMA – Rescue teams searched Tuesday for two men stranded overnight in a snowstorm at two different spots in the central Cascades.
High winds and blowing snow were making it difficult to reach a 26-year-old climber who radioed from Mount Adams on Monday that he was lost and feeling ill.
The man, who was not identified, was believed to be at an elevation of 7,000 to 8,000 feet, said Don Thompson, a search coordinator for the Yakima County sheriff’s office.
A second search was under way between White and Chinook passes for a hunter who got lost in the woods on Bethel Ridge on Monday, Thompson said.
“He’s physically OK. He just got turned around,” Thompson said.
An early season storm brought 6 inches of snow to the Cascades, and wind gusts of up to 80 mph at Chinook Pass and 62 mph at White Pass, the National Weather Service said.
Help sought in identifying dead woman: The bones of a woman have been found along a pipeline right-of-way in the south end of Renton, and authorities have appealed to the public for help in identifying her. The woman’s remains were found Oct. 17 by a crew clearing brush for Olympic Pipe Line Co. about 100 yards east of Highway 167, police Cmdr. Kevin Milosevich said. Cause of death remains undetermined, and detectives are reviewing missing person cases and checking with other law enforcement agencies, he said. Investigators in the King County Medical Examiner’s Office said the woman appeared to be 17 to 25 years old with a petite build and was missing an upper left canine tooth, which would have resulted in a noticeable gap when she smiled.
From Herald wire services
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