A pair of lost hikers who had inadequate supplies were rescued overnight from the Bernardo Way trail head in Desert Hot Springs, sheriff’s officials said Friday. A Riverside County sheriff’s volunteer search-and-rescue team deployed about 9:15 p.m. Thursday to the trail to retrieve a 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman who did not have water […]
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Firefighters rescued a hiker who suffered a leg injury and became stranded on a hillside Wednesday while traversing a trail in the San Bernardino National Forest just west of Palm Desert. The remote area rescue was initiated about 1:50 p.m. when the hiker, whose name was not released, called 911 to report a lower leg […]
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Joshua Tree National Park will reopen all currently closed campgrounds this Friday ahead of the fall season, park officials announced Wednesday. The park closes several campgrounds during the summer months to save on maintenance costs and help renew vegetation, as the number of campers tends to decrease amid the hot weather, according to the park […]
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Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathon Blank lost his legs when an improvised explosive device detonated next to him in October 2010 in Afghanistan. But he has never let that get in the way of living a dynamic life, he tells CNN. After retiring from the Marines in 2014, he moved out to Utah, where he loves […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6078145703001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] It is going to be a rough transition for some active pet owners. The City of Palm Springs no longer allows pets on four of its popular hiking trails to preserve the native species living in the desert mountains. Brandon England recently moved from […]
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A 69-year-old Arizona woman last seen wearing a black bikini and hiking boots has disappeared during a hike with her husband in Southern California’s Mojave Desert during one of its warmest stretches of the year. Barbara Thomas, 69, of Bullhead City, Arizona, was last seen Friday wearing the bikini, a red baseball cap and tan […]
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A Florida man and his blind dog have completed a 1,100 mile hike across the Sunshine State. Kyle Rohrig is an avid hiker and his Shiba Inu named Katana usually accompanies him. She’s easily logged 30 miles a day on their past trails, but when the Japanese hunting dog lost both eyes to Glaucoma two […]
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A hiker who suffered an unspecified lower- body injury was brought to safety by county firefighters Monday from a Desert Hot Springs trail. Firefighters responded around 9:30 a.m. to a report of a hiker with a “lower extremity injury” on a trail near Santa Cruz Road and Casa Grande Drive in Desert Hot Springs, according […]
