http://newsroom.blogs.oregonlive.com/default.asp?item=277863

Two lost hikers found; one arrested

Two lost hikers were found cold and wet Sunday night by Oregon State Police troopers and a Marion County sheriff’s deputy after they got lost in the Silver Falls State Park area.

Cops say one hiker got to go home. The other wasn’t as lucky.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003386501_natparks10m.html

“Mount Rainier National Park has been completely closed to visitors for the first time in recent memory, after swollen rivers devoured chunks of roads, swallowed several campgrounds, cut electricity to much of the park and forced Park Service employees to flee their headquarters.

“It’s really kind of an amazing amount of damage,” said Lee Taylor, spokeswoman at the park.

The devastation, which could keep the park closed for weeks, was just part of the damage to forest land and recreation areas all over the state brought by this week’s flooding.”

Olympic National Park rescuers on Thursday are continuing their search for two hikers who planned a one-night backpacking trip but failed to show up for work.

Searchers and dog crews are looking for Neil Twilla of Silverdale and Jeff Mersmann of Bremerton in the Upper Lena Lake area of the park.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/291740_hiker09ww.html

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UPDATE:  The hikers have been found, cold and hungry but otherwise fine.

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