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NORTHWEST East Oregonian A2 Saturday, July 27, 2019 73-year-old, his dogs rescued after 4 days in remote Oregon Gregory Randolph had hiked about 14 miles with one of his dogs after his Jeep got stuck in a narrow, dry creek bed By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press ADELL — A 73-year-old man, who was stranded in the remote Oregon High Desert for four days with his two dogs, was rescued when a long-distance mountain biker discovered him near death on a dirt road, authorities said Thursday. Gregory Randolph had hiked about 14 miles with one of his dogs after his Jeep got stuck in a nar- row, dry creek bed. He was barely conscious when biker Tomas Qui- nones found him July 18. Quinones, of Portland, hadn’t seen anyone all day as he biked across the so-called Oregon Out- back, a sparsely populated expanse of scrub brush and cattle lands in south-central Oregon. At first, he thought the strange lump was a dead cow. “As I got closer, I thought, ‘That’s a funny looking cow,’ and then, I realized that this was a man,” he recalled Thursday. “I started noticing that he sometimes would look at me, but his eyes were all over the place, almost rolling into the back of his head. Once I got a better look at him, I could tell that he was in deep trouble.” Tomas Quinones via AP This July 18, 2019, photo provided by Tomas Quinones shows Gregory Randolph, a 73-year-old man who was stranded in the remote Oregon High Desert for four days with his two dogs. Randolph was rescued when Qui- nones, a long-distance mountain biker, discovered him near death on a dirt road, authorities said Thursday. Randolph was horribly sun- burned, couldn’t talk or sit up, and could barely drink the water Qui- nones offered him. Quinones hadn’t had a cell- phone signal for two days, so he pressed the “SOS” button on a GPS tracking device he travels with in case of emergency. He sat with Randolph, unfurl- ing his tent to provide shade as they waited. A dog — a tiny Shih Tzu — emerged from the brush, and Quinones fed it peanut butter. An ambulance showed up more than an hour later and whisked Randolph away, leaving the dog. A sheriff’s deputy showed up minutes later and, after giving a report, Quinones continued his trip. The deputy took the dog. But Quinones soon noticed what appeared to be Randolph’s footsteps in the dust and followed them back for 4 miles until the foot tracks left the road, he said. When the deputy passed BRIEFLY Forecast for Pendleton Area TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Mostly sunny; breezy, not as hot Sunny and beautiful Pleasant with plenty of sunshine Pleasant with plenty of sun Nice with plenty of sun 88° 54° 88° 56° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 93° 61° 89° 55° 89° 59° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 91° 56° 91° 57° 97° 65° 92° 55° 93° 62° OREGON FORECAST ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Seattle Olympia 71/54 82/48 88/51 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 89/58 Lewiston 77/55 92/55 Astoria 70/55 Pullman Yakima 89/55 77/52 91/59 Portland Hermiston 82/57 The Dalles 91/56 Salem Corvallis 82/54 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 85/52 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 86/54 86/49 88/54 Ontario 98/64 Caldwell Burns 95° 50° 90° 60° 109° (1939) 45° (1936) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 82/54 0.00" 0.01" 0.18" 4.56" 5.10" 5.88" WINDS (in mph) 96/60 89/46 0.00" 0.04" 0.28" 9.61" 6.49" 7.86" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 82/47 83/55 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 88/54 84/58 95° 57° 90° 60° 109° (1928) 40° (1908) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 78/52 Aberdeen 83/53 84/58 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 76/58 while leaving the area, Quinones pointed out the tracks then contin- ued on. Oregon State Police said they used an airplane to spot Ran- dolph’s Jeep two days later, on July 20. His second dog had stayed at the site and was alive. The dog may have gotten some water from mud puddles in the creek bed, Lake County Deputy Buck Maganzini said. The Jeep was miles from the nearest paved road, he added. “It’s still there. It very well could stay there forever. I don’t know how he got the Jeep in as far as he did,” Maganzini said. Randolph spent several nights in a hospital but is home and recovering, as are his dogs. A home phone listing for him was disconnected. “He was just out driving the roads — that’s kind of com- mon out here,” Maganzini said. “There’s not a heck of a lot else to do. You see a lot of pretty country.” Quinones has finished his backcountry bike trip and said he feels lucky that he found Ran- dolph when he did — and that he had a way to summon help. He later discovered it would have been a six-hour ride to the next campsite with cellphone ser- vice had he not had his GPS track- ing “SOS” device. “There’s no way to tell how long he’d been collapsed on that road,” he said. “It’s kind of mind-blowing.” Today Sun. Boardman WSW 10-20 Pendleton W 10-20 Medford 95/62 WSW 3-6 WNW 4-8 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 88/50 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Forest Service bans camping in overused area BAKER CITY — The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has banned overnight camping on a 240-acre site near Sumpter due to damage caused by people staying in the area for longer than the 14 consecutive days allowed. “Because of this type of use, the area has become very impacted from the campers,” according to a memorandum from Tom Montoya, Wal- lowa-Whitman supervisor. The affected area is near Huckleberry Creek, along Forest Road 1090 just east of Highway 7, about 5 miles southeast of Sumpter. In his memo, Montoya wrote: “The visitors to the area appear to have estab- lished a pattern of being dis- ruptive to the local residents. There have been reports of forest visitors digging septic holes, leaving litter behind, and damaging wetlands with off-highway vehicle play activities.” 5:32 a.m. 8:30 p.m. 1:24 a.m. 4:25 p.m. New First Full Last July 31 Aug 7 Aug 15 Aug 23 Montoya wrote that Wal- lowa-Whitman employees have documented some of this damage, including with photographs. “To prevent this damage from continuing, the area needs time to be closed to let the area rehabilitate,” Mon- toya wrote. Forest employees have received reports that people have stayed in the area for as long as 3 to 4 months, accord- ing to Montoya’s memo. He also wrote that employees have “received multiple complaints and requests for the Forest Ser- vice to do something.” Forest Service law enforcement officers will monitor the area during the camping ban. State attorneys seek dismissal of foster care lawsuit SALEM — State attor- neys representing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and the Department of Human Ser- vices filed a motion to dis- miss a federal lawsuit target- ing Oregon’s troubled foster care system, arguing in part that the state is already tak- ing significant action to address child welfare. The motion, filed Thurs- day, responds to a lawsuit filed in April arguing that the state violated foster chil- dren’s federal and constitu- tional rights by not provid- ing them proper care. The suit said DHS failed to pro- tect the 7,500 foster children in its custody from harm and cited numerous exam- ples, including a case involv- ing a 9-year-old girl who was sent to an out-of-state facil- ity where she was drugged and physically restrained by staff. 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