Posted on 12/24/2016 10:52:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
A woman who has been missing since Thursday near the Grand Canyon was found alive early Saturday morning, according to the Coconino County Sheriff's Office.
Searchers found 47-year-old Karen Klein shortly after midnight at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Klein had walked approximately 26 miles since Thursday afternoon in search of help after getting stranded with her husband and son in a rental car.
The car got stuck on a forest service road.
Searchers said Klein was conscious, communicating and suffering from the cold weather.
She was treated on scene by rescuers and transported to Kane County Hospital in Kanab, Utah.
She is expected to be transferred to the hospital in St. George, Utah for further treatment.
Searchers on snowmobiles tracked remnants of Klein's tracks to a guard shack at a gate to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon that was closed for the winter.
On Friday afternoon, Klein's husband, Eric, and 10-year-old son had been able to hike to an area where they had cell service to call for help. Both received treatment for cold exposure, including frostbite.
The family is from Pennsylvania.
They rented a car in Las Vegas and drove to visit southern Utah.
They were following their GPS system in an attempt to visit the Grand Canyon.
However, State Route 67 to the North Rim is closed for the winter season.
The GPS system detoured them through forest service roads which were receiving heavy snow.
Klein left the vehicle to walk to State Route 67 to get help.
She had some food and water and was dressed in several layers of clothing.
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We often find people lost and out of gas on our ranch from trying to use GPS on forest roads.
Often their abandoned cars get stripped while they’re gone.
The Forest Service has real maps, get one.
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In the mountains on a cloudy night, its tough!
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I’ll give you that if you are not familiar with your surroundings, but, if in unfamiliar areas, one must take note of what surrounds you, in this case, those mountains don’t change and being that you got there usually with some daylight, the sun, or what you see of it, when it is still up will tell you all you need to know.
You don’t do that in the rural Northeast in winter either, Westerner
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