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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
In its motion to dismiss,
the state argues the federal
court system cannot compel
changes to Oregon’s foster
care system and that improv-
ing child welfare is “a task
that must be left to Oregon’s
juvenile courts and state
government.”
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