SEATTLE (AP) – Friends of prominent outdoors writer Karen Sykes are anxious but hopeful that searchers will find her safely sheltered somewhere in Mount Rainier National Park.
The well-known Seattle-based hiker was reported missing by a hiking partner late Wednesday while she researched a story.
Search teams have had no luck so far, but park officials were resuming efforts Saturday morning.
A crew in a helicopter and about 30 people on the ground searched steep, rugged terrain in the Owyhigh Lakes area for a second day Friday. They are focused along the length of the 8-mile Owyhigh Lakes Trail.
Sykes, 70, had adequate survival gear to camp overnight in an emergency, park spokeswoman Patti Wold said.