Teenage hiker calls for rescue as water runs low
May 6, 2015, 5:18 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A teenager hiker was down to eight ounces of water when he was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter in Alpine County.
The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/1JPPMdS ) that 18-year-old D’Artagnan Driscoll of Apache Junction, Arizona sent a rescue signal Sunday night after realizing he was running out of water.
Driscoll used a hand-held GPS device to call for rescue and was found about nine hours later.
The teenager was on the Pacific Crest Trail in remote Alpine County on a two-month hike from Sonora to Canada. He says he used a cellphone application to find water sources on the trail but discovered that they had dried up.
Driscoll originally began his hike near the California-Mexico border but was driven to Sonora when he couldn’t find water in Southern California.
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