Diane Salmon, who had been reported missing Friday, turned up safe Sunday afternoon/NPS
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.
A search continued Sunday for Susan Clements, who went missing at Great Smoky Mountains National Park/HO
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."
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Unfortunetly, they found her body 2 miles from the parking lot in deep brush. They said they don't think it is foul play.
It's wierd that she went hiking with her daughter and her daughter said she went ahead a bit and came back and she was missing. The map they showed on news makes it seem like a triangle. May she Rest In Peace.
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Its all of the parks