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  • From: "Chuck Daniel" <iwhound@voyager.net>
  • To: <MSAR-Riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Stranded camper rescued after nearly 5 weeks in forest
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:56:58 -0500

The following article was in the Columbus Dispatch today. Does anyone have
any details on the search for Carolyn Dorn?

Chuck
KVMSAR


Stranded camper rescued after nearly 5 weeks in forest
Monday, January 15, 2007


SILVER CITY, N.M.
A camper who became stranded nearly five weeks ago in a national forest
because she could not cross a swollen river was rescued Sunday, more than two
weeks after the search for her was called off.

New Mexico National Guard members waded across the icy Gila River to rescue a
dehydrated and weak Carolyn Dorn, who entered the Gila National Forest alone
on Dec. 6 for a two-week camping trip.

Two brothers found the South Carolina resident Friday while they were hiking,
said search and rescue coordinator Frankie Benoist, of Silver City.

Dorn was too weak to cross the river, so the brothers left food and water and
went for help, Benoist said. It took them a day to hike out and contact
rescuers.

Dorn was hospitalized and should be fine, Benoist said. Her condition was
unavailable.




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