Rescue in Mountains above Pasadena Ends With a Hug

Rescuers from the Altadena Mountain Rescue Team (AMRT) helped pull out two hikers from Echo Mountain in the Angeles National Forest Sunday after the two had lost their bearings and were attempting to find a trail off the mountain.

The Rescue Team received a call at about 2 p.m. Sunday about the two hikers who had reportedly slipped off the trail and did not know their exact location.

The responding rescuers located the hikers in Rubio Canyon on a steep hillside and called in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Air Rescue 5, which in turn performed a hoist rescue of the hikers – a 31-year-old man from Paramount and a 29-year-old woman from Irvine – and flew them to Farnsworth Park in Altadena.

The hikers did not sustain injuries, were medically cleared and released after a while.

An AMRT spokesperson said the incident was the second call out this weekend.

Late Saturday night, the team was searching for two hikers who had become lost in the area of Eaton Canyon. Altadena search crews located both hikers on a trail located down-canyon of the first waterfall in Eaton Canyon. Both hikers were not injured. The hikers, a 20-year-old woman from Bellflower and a 19-year-old woman from Compton, had finished a day-hike and became lost in the darkness. Search crews led both hikers out of the canyon.