Editor's note: This updates with the missing woman in Sequoia National Park being found alive.
While a search continued Sunday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a missing Ohio woman, a woman reported missing in Sequoia National Park turned up OK that afternoon.
Diane Salmon, 63, of Lafayette, California, was seen by other hikers on her way to the South Lake Trailhead in Inyo National Forest. She had been reported missing Friday.
When last seen, Salmon was on the Bishop Pass Trail on the north side of the first lake in Dusy Basin below Knapsack Pass. Her plan was to pass through Dusy Basin, which is located in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness at over 11,000 feet with high alpine lakes. The terrain of the area is littered with boulders, white pine trees, and other shrubbery.
"Ms. Salmon walked out with (the other hikers) and is currently being reunited with her family," Sequoia staff reported Sunday afternoon.
Across the country in North Carolina and Tennessee, searchers still had no clues to the whereabouts of Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements, 53, of Ohio, who was hiking with her daughter in the Clingmans Dome area last Tuesday when she went missing.
Searchers continued to work on the belief that Clements was still in the park and had not left it or been kidnapped.
"We are presuming she is in the park, there is no compelling reason to believe otherwise at this point," Great Smoky Mountains spokeswoman Julena Campbell said Sunday afternoon. "But again, while the extensive search is taking place in the park, our investigators still work 'other angles,' if you will, as needed, on the chance that she is not. Again, no reason to presume she is NOT in the park, but as a matter of protocol, we always look at other possibilities."
Comments
Wake up!! How many people have to vanish in this area before you start warning the public??? This is like the third person that just "poof" disappears around Clingman's Dome. This poor lady won't be found and she'll disappear again into the news cycle.
Which others have disappeared in this area?
There really should be cameras at intermittent points on all of these trails, it wouldn't be that expensive.
Ive hiked all that area, I hace also read about all the different missing people . God Bless. Theres always hope !
...or at least cameras in all the parking areas to monitor people coming and going.
They need to verify that she actually was on the trail.
Did anyone else see her besides the daughter?
If she was there why did the daughter leave her alone?
Scary dont know if and how she is missing. But there
are large wild animals bears, cougars, etc. People should
carry wistles or battery operated alarms. Youtube
David Paulides Missing 411 missing hikers in USA
national forests. They have been searching hard and fast
for her, people, drone sand helicopter. Its a mystery.
No, no cameras on park trails. GSMNP is a wild park. It's rugged and beautiful. People who hike there need to understand that. Cameras at parking areas, yes.
Who are all these "missing people" in GSMNP?