Two Bay Area women who got lost while mountain biking in Jackson State Demonstration Forest near Fort Bragg this week were found safe and sound by local Search and Rescue volunteers, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported.
According to the MCSO, deputies were informed around 6:30 p.m. July 6 that two women, one a 49-year-old from Novato and the second a 50-year-old from Oakland, had not returned from a mountain biking trek into the JSDF.
The person who reported them missing said the pair had been expected to return around 2 p.m. that day, but that the women “became disoriented when they decided to follow an unknown trail in order to return to their parked vehicle that was left at the Camp 1 (Noyo River) camping and recreation area known by locals as the ‘Egg Taking Station.’ The bikers had managed to send text messages to their spouses to advise that they were disoriented in the forest and needed assistance.”
One of the women’s spouses contacted the MCSO, and deputies were “able to obtain GPS coordinates for the mountain bikers’ location, but the coordinates placed the bikers deep in the forest which was inaccessible by vehicles or ATVs. It was determined that continued search efforts to locate the mountain bikers would have to be conducted on foot. Sheriff’s Deputies requested the assistance of Mendocino County Search and Rescue to assume the duties of coordinating a more intensive search of the area.”
After finding the bikers’ vehicle, deputies “conducted initial searches along the roads and trails in that area as dusk approached, (but) due to the lack of light and resources,” the search was suspended until daylight.
Around 6:20 a.m. July 7, the MCSO reports that SAR volunteers returned and “hiked into the location where the two mountain bikers were stranded, (traversing) approximately 2 to 3 miles of steep rugged terrain to reach the two bicyclists, and finally located them at approximately 8:20 a.m. Due to the rugged terrain and thick forest canopy, a Cal Fire helicopter” could not be deployed.
However, the mountain bikers were able to hike out with the SAR members back to an accessible road, and were described as being in “good health and uninjured.” The MCSO notes that “the expert abilities and determination of the Sheriff’s Office SAR personnel were to thank for the quick recovery of the two stranded mountain bikers.”
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