OC Sheriff’s search & rescue teams use expertise to recover lost hiker

Six Orange County Sheriff Department search and rescue teams spent hours in cold and rainy conditions scouring the rugged and steep terrain along trails near Sitton Peak off Ortega Highway on May 5, trying to find a hiker who had not been seen for more than 12 hours.
They used a variety of tactics, including comparing boot prints like crime-scene investigators, and strategies for covering large amounts of space efficiently to successfully find the lost hiker, who was weakened by spending the nig