Hiker with young kids gets lost hiking remote California trail, cops say. See rescue
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A hiker and two young kids who were with them got lost while hiking a remote California trail — as temperatures started to drop, officials said.
The trio was hiking the trail in Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Sunday, March 9, when they became lost, California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate Air Operations said on Instagram.
The agency didn’t say what time it was, but video from the rescue shows it was dark on the mountain.
“It was reported the children were beginning to suffer from hypothermia,” the agency said.
Rescuers found them on the trail, landed the rescue helicopter nearby and a crew member got out to stay with them on the trail as they were loaded into the helicopter, officials said.
They were taken to a waiting ambulance, where they were treated and then released “with a loved one that had been searching for them,” officials said.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the oldest state park in California, is in the Santa Cruz Mountains and is about a 60-mile drive southeast from San Francisco.
This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM with the headline "Hiker with young kids gets lost hiking remote California trail, cops say. See rescue."
