[Pyrites]

Multi-agency Search Underway for Missing Hiker - Rugged Ridge area Missing Person Stephanie N Lincoln Age: 40 Height: 5’4” Weight: 130 lbs Description: Short brown hair, hazel eyes. Last seen with a red backpack. Stephanie failed to return from a day hike on the Rugged Ridge Trail, outside Forks, August 8. Her intended destination was Indian Pass, returning to the Rugged Ridge Trailhead on National Forest land off the A Road, east of Forks. If you were in the area of Rugged Ridge on August 8-9, or have any information regarding this individual, please contact Olympic National Park Dispatch at 360-565-3115. Teams from Olympic National Park and Clallam County Search & Rescue are currently involved in the search.

[Ravenridge22]

[tinman]

From Clallam County Sheriffs office: **UPDATE ON LOST HIKER STEPHANIE LINCOLN - LOCATED BY SEARCH & RESCUE TEAMS** On 8/10/20 at approximately 5:30pm, one of the Search & Rescue Helicopter teams saw Stephanie waving to them from a ravine near the Rugged Ridge Trailhead. Rescue is underway.

[RumiDude]

[Pyrites]

‘I'm Stephanie's mom. SHE HAS BEEN FOUND ALIVE BY RESCUE AND BEING FLOWN TO THE HOSPITAL AT THIS MOMENT! THANK YOY ALL WHO PRAYED, SHARED THE POST, AND VOLUNTEERS THAT LOOKED FOR HER. ‘ Cut & pasted from Oly Park FB page. Good news.

[Ravenridge22]

From Peninsula Daily News Missing hiker reportedly found outside of Forks

Rugged Ridge is a relatively isolated area east of Forks in Olympic National Park. By Pierre LaBossiere Monday, August 10, 2020 9:20pm OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A hiker who had been missing since Saturday has been located by Clallam County Search and Rescue teams. One of the helicopter teams located Stephanie N. Lincoln, 40, waving to them from a ravine near the Rugged Ridge trailhead at about 5:30 p.m. Monday, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office reported. A rescue operation immediately commenced. https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/search-underway-for-missing-hiker-outside-of-forks/

[Ski]

Monday August 11, 2020 21:32 PDT Clallam County Sheriff's Office - Olympic NP joint news release: Missing Hiker Rescued Earlier today, the National Park Service exclusive-use contract helicopter was activated from North Cascades National Park. (Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic national parks share the dedicated short-haul rescue helicopter on contract for the summer season.) At around 5:00 P.M. Stephanie Lincoln was located by the helicopter about 2 kilometers northwest of her vehicle. Stephanie was airlifted to the Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles where she was examined by medical personnel at 6:50 P.M. After being medically cleared, Stephanie was debriefed by members of Clallam County Search and Rescue. Stephanie reported that she missed the trailhead and inadvertently took another path. After about a mile into the woods she realized her error and tried to double back to her vehicle but could not locate it. Stephanie attempted to put out an emergency alert on her cell phone but there was no service. Stephanie hiked to higher ground to attempt to find phone service but could not find any. The next morning Stephanie headed to the sound of running water. This took her to a steep embankment. When Stephanie tried to negotiate the embankment she slid down it and lost her trekking poles. When Stephanie got to the source of the water, the Sitkum River, she found that she would not be able to cross it. She found a meadow and waited there in the hopes that a helicopter would be able to spot her. After spotting the helicopter, she signaled for help. After the debrief, Stephanie was transported to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office in Port Angeles where she was reunited with her family at around 7:30 P.M - CCSO NPS -

[JonnyQuest]

[MyFootHurts]

Sounds like she took off on the wrong path from the trailhead. I can actually see that happening. I've pulled in trailheads full of cars and wandered around the parking lot looking for the trail more than once.

[Pyrites]

What is normal post for the NPS’s contract helicopter? Best.

[RodF]

[Ravenridge22]

Rescued hiker recounts her experience Stephanie Lincoln tapped into her military training during 60 hour ordeal FORKS — Lost in an all-encompassing expanse of timberland for nearly 60 hours, the Evergreen State living up to its nickname for miles in every direction, Stephanie Lincoln did her best to suppress her emotions for much of her ordeal. She couldn’t help but think of her husband, Brad Rosenthal, her partner of 16 years whom she married in December, or of her friends and family, but Lincoln knew that too much worry could turn into crippling waves of panic. Peninsula Daily News story by Michael Carman

[Slugman]

How can there be such a long article filled with pointless details yet it said almost nothing about how she became lost?

[80skeys]

I'm sure a lot of you probably go on solo hiking and backpacking trips, but honestly I don't see how it's a good idea. I don't think anybody should be doing that. I mean, who am I to talk, I used to go fly fishing by myself a lot, and I got into real dicey situations a couple times where I could have gotten into trouble, but thankfully didn't. But here's what I think. I think every time you go out hiking you should be accompanied by at least one other person. Although if one of you gets injured, then, if the other person has to go hiking for help it puts you both in the situation of being alone, which isn't good. But at least someone else knows where you are and what condition you're in. I just thinking hiking and camping by oneself is not a good idea.

[Seventy2002]