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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Family safe after search on mountain
A Corvallis family found
their way safely down South
Sister last weekend, after get-
ting lost and calling for search
and rescue.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff ’s Office was dis-
patched at about 5:18 p.m. on
Saturday evening to a report
of a family that was hiking
down South Sister and could
no longer see the trail. Jesse
and Amanda Wise were hiking
with their five children ages 6
to 15, had called to report they
had come up against a rock
wall and the clouds had low-
ered so they could no longer
tell which way to go.
Jesse Wise advised they
were dressed for the weather,
had food and water and the
means to start a fire. Wise
informed dispatch they would
travel a little further to the
southeast to a group of trees
where he would start a fire.
Attempts to contact Wise
again by phone or text were
not successful. Dispatch was
able to provide fairly accurate
GPS coordinates of where
Wise had called from, which
showed that Wise and his fam-
ily had gotten off the trail to
the west of the climbers trail
by about seven-tenths of a
mile at an elevation of about
6,500 feet. Accidently leaving
the trail to the west in this area
has proven to be a common
cause of hikers becoming lost
during this time of the year
when the snow is still cover-
ing the trail, especially under
conditions of limited visibility.
One Forest Service law-
enforcement officer responded
to the Devil’s Lake trailhead
and quickly hiked the climbers
trail to the last known coordi-
nates in the attempt to locate
the family before dark. Five
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office Search and Rescue
members were deployed to the
same trail to assist the officer
in locating and assisting the
family down the mountain.
The officer was not able
to locate anyone at the last
known coordinates, but did
locate tracks that appeared
to be the family’s, heading
south still off of the trail. It
was soon reported the tracks
began to lead toward the west,
which raised the level of con-
cern that the family would
be pulled further to the west
making the descent more dif-
ficult and more time-consum-
ing. At this time more SAR
resources were beginning to
be deployed to assist in the
search.
At about 8:52 p.m., Wise
called dispatch to report the
family had made it back to
the Devil’s Lake trail and they
were all OK, but wet.
Wise’s phone had died
soon after calling dispatch.
Wise was able to build a fire,
but the weather cleared up
soon after and he was able
to see tracks leading in what
Wise believed was the right
direction. Wise advised he
had not brought with him a
map, GPS or compass, or a
means of charging his cell
phone. Wise and his family
turned around about 1,000
feet below the summit.
The Forest Service officer
ended up following the tracks
left by the family on their
descent, which revealed that
the family ended up coming
down the mountain counter-
clockwise on the Moraine
Lake Trail instead of on the
climbers trail.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office reminds those
who recreate in the backcoun-
try to always be prepared
for their plans to change at
a moment’s notice. Always
having the “10 essentials”
with you will help ensure a
successful backcountry expe-
rience. See www.deschutes
searchandrescue.org for fur-
ther information on the 10
essentials.
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