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Hiker found safe after 10 days in Northern California mountains
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A hiker missing for 10 days was found safe in the mountains in Northern California, authorities said. Lukas McClish, 34, left the rural community of Boulder Creek for a hike on June 11 and was reported missing June 16, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.
Missing hiker rescued 10 days after getting lost in California mountains
A 34-year-old who was lost for 10 days in California's Santa Cruz Mountains is finally home with his family. Lukas McClish had last been seen on the morning of June 11 when he set out for a hike from his Boulder Creek-area home, Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office said. Only expecting to be gone for three hours, McClish told ABC7 he lost his way due to wildfires having wiped out certain landmarks. He was declared missing six days later when he didn't show for a Father's Day dinner, ABC7 reported.
Photo | Hiker walks atop hill at Anna Jean Cummings County Park in Soquel
A visitor to Anna Jean Cummings County Park in Soquel is surrounded by a sea of lush grasses and foliage adjacent to Soquel High School. The park is one of the many places in Santa Cruz County where nature beckons at the interface between our urban and rural zones.
Drivers hit 196 animals on Highway 17 near Lexington Reservoir; a new project aims to make it safe
Most people know Highway 17 as a winding, mountainous road that thousands of motorists use every weekend to travel from Silicon Valley to beaches in Santa Cruz. But one particular stretch is also a notorious killing zone for animals. From 2009 to 2023, there were at least 196 collisions between vehicles and large wild animals on a 2-mile-long portion of Highway 17 between the Cats restaurant near downtown Los Gatos and the Bear Creek Road overcrossing near Lexington Reservoir.
San Lorenzo Valley Water District Appoints Bryan Largay to Board
JUNE 20, 2024 — BOULDER CREEK, CA — The San Lorenzo Valley Water District (SLVWD) Board of Directors announced Bryan Largay was appointed to fill a Board vacancy on June 13, 2024. Director Largay, a Felton resident, was appointed to serve the remainder of the term for the...
California man, 34, was supposed to go on a 3-hour hike. He was found 10 days later covered in mud
A Californian man who embarked on a three-hour hike has been found after being stranded for 10 days in the mountains, surviving mostly off water.Lukas McClish, 34, covered in dirt, reunited with his family late last week afer his ordeal in the Santa Cruz Mountains.McClish told KGO that he set out on a hike on June 11 from his hometown of Boulder Creek in what he thought would be a short outing that Tuesday on his way to work; however, the further he got into the hike he became lost after he did not recognize several guiding landmarks that...
‘It’s just craziness’: As Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire season begins, proposed camping policy unnerves residents
Nancy Kille knows where not to look. Still, she steps off to the side of her ridgetop property in Bonny Doon and looks anyway. A sloping landscape once filled with winding oaks and skyward redwood trees is now mostly charred trunks. The sight triggers memories of August 2020, when she evacuated her home for 76 days while the CZU wildfire torched hers and more than 900 other Santa Cruz Mountains homes.
Lost for 10 days in California forest, man survived by drinking from his boot
For days, Lukas McClish roamed the woods in Santa Cruz mountains without food or supplies. What helped him survive: drinking lots of water out of his hiking boots. The 34-year-old resident of Boulder Creek, Calif., had left home on the morning of June 11, authorities said, for what he thought would be a short hike.
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