MOUNT WASHINGTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Massachusetts State Police troopers and search and rescue volunteers located a missing hiker in the Berkshires town of Mount Washington early Sunday morning, state police say.
Troopers received a report from a man around 8:15 p.m. on Saturday saying his 54-year-old wife was four hours overdue in returning from her hike around Plantain Pond. The woman was reported to have no medical issues,
MSP patrols from State Police-Lee and the Troop B Community Action Team, MSP K-9 units, and a helicopter from the MSP Air Wing launched a search and rescue mission with assistance from Berkshire Mountain Rescue volunteers.
After a more than five-hour-long search, around 1:30 a.m. a search team located the lost hiker who was able to walk out of the forest with two Troopers from the MSP Troop B Community Action Team.
The hiker did not report any injuries but was evaluated by an EMS unit at the search command post.
No additional information has been released.
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