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3 people rescued from Desolation Wilderness


By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee

A CHP helicopter crew and rescue personnel with mountain climbing experience had to be called upon the get three young people from Sacramento off a rocky Sierra Nevada outcropping.

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office got a cell phone call for help in the early morning hours Saturday from the three stranded hikers. They were on a ledge in the Desolation Wilderness and could not safely go up or down.

All three were cold but did not have major injuries.

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  1. Kits Carson says - Posted: October 12, 2015

    Once again, tourists out of their element.

  2. Liberule says - Posted: October 12, 2015

    Have you seen the footage of where they were rescued!?!? MORONS. It’s like they tried to get stuck. Absolutely where they shouldn’t have been. I reallllllllly hope they are paying for their rescue. Stay in Sac you idiots.

  3. ljames says - Posted: October 13, 2015

    Yeah and just because you live here, you never screw up and also very fortunately, if you do live here, you never travel and become a tourist out of your element.
    You got to love one of the most identifying characteristics of a Tahoe resident: xenophobia

  4. Justice says - Posted: October 13, 2015

    Bill these fools 10k each for starters. THAT sends the correct message.

  5. Robin Smith says - Posted: October 23, 2015

    “When in ROME.”