Crews Search for 3 Missing Hikers in Angeles National Forest
Three Los Angeles men ages 32, 45 and 50 have gone missing in the Angeles National Forest. The men embarked on a hike in the Devil's Canyon-Mt. Waterman area of the San Gabriel Mountains around 9am on Sunday and planned to return by 5pm or 6pm that day, according to L.A. Now.
Family members reported the hikers missing when they still had not returned home by approximately 10:45pm on Sunday.
Search-and-rescue crews - including ground crews and helicopters - are searching the area but have found no sign of the hikers as of early Tuesday morning.
Two vehicles belonging to the men were found, one at the trailhead near Devil's Canyon and the other at Mt. Waterman's trailhead. The men planned to tackle a one-way, 15-mile hike from one vehicle to the other. They did not pack overnight gear.
"I can tell you that's a very rugged area," said Steve Goldsworthy, a volunteer with the L.A. County Sheriff's Deptartment's Montrose Search and Rescue Team. "In some places there is no trail, it's just slate and rock."
UPDATE: (9:53am) All three hikers were found uninjured on Tuesday morning at 8:40am. Officials do not know why the men failed to return home from their hike on Sunday.
