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A camping trip in Oregon’s Mount Jefferson Wilderness turned into a massive search-and-rescue operation this week after a 68-year-old hiker left his campsite near Russell Lake and did not return.
For days, John Nelson’s location remained unknown as search crews moved through steep, remote country in the central Cascades. The search eventually expanded to include more than 100 volunteers, emergency personnel and partner agencies, all working through a landscape complicated by dense forest, rugged drainages and lingering damage from the catastrophic wildfires of 2020.
Late Thursday evening, the news everyone had been hoping for finally came.
Members of Benton County Search and Rescue found Nelson alive in
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