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Show (Hunter Found Safe BOULDER A Phoenix, ' uiz., deer hunter, lost for a day and half, was found at dusk Sunday in ugged terrain on Short Neck Bench t the 9,000-foot level on Boulder "Mountain. - - The search for 40-year-old Tatrick Moor started Saturday noon I hen he failed to rejoin his hunting i arty as planned. Party members J. arched until dark then notified the J arfield County Sheriffs office in panguitch, that Moor had not been yjpen since 7 a.m. that morning. i Kent Robinson, Search and Aescue commander for the Es-' Es-' fialante-Boulder area, and Tom ackson, who serves as captain for ie unit, alerted S&R members to take ready for a search starting at awn on Sunday. Intermittent rain and snow dur-rijflg dur-rijflg the night and early morning W ours increased the danger for Moor pjlfind made searching difficult ;0 Searchers covered a wide area in t0', grid pattern on horseback and jllOOur-wheelers. At 10:30 a.m. when ;ollouds opened up, Doug Austin onducted a two and one-half hour search by plane, accompanied by Robinson and Terry Smith. Jackson and Gil Becenti spent some eight hours on horseback and were preparing to end the search near dark when Becenti spotted Moor less than 50 yards off a little used trail Becenti had decided to take toward Stucki Ranch and the highway, while Jackson went back to the pickup and horse trailer to head for Boulder. Four men on horseback, Kirk Lyman, Augie Bernardo, Robinson and Smith, who headed up from below in another search pattern, had started back to Boulder. Searchers on four-wheelers, four-wheelers, Kurt Richins, Dan Spencer, had turned around as darkness dark-ness approached. Exhausted, badly dehydrated and disoriented, Moor was barely able to walk. He said that shortly after splitting up with his fellow hunters early Saturday morning, a heavy fog had rolled into the area. Unfamiliar Unfa-miliar with the terrain, he quickly lost his bearings and became hopelessly hope-lessly lost. Dressed for hunting with only a down vest for warmth, he said he was able to keep from freezing during the night only by constantly moving. A searcher's nearby four-wheeler was used to take Moor back to a pickup for the ride into Boulder where he was checked by Emergency Medical Technicians and a nurse. Searchers said Moor had not traveled far from where he started, but heavy oak thickets and rugged rocky canyons made movement difficult both for the lost hunter and those seeking him. The Escalante-Boulder Search and Rescue team has some 15 volunteer vol-unteer members, all well-trained, familiar with the local area, and skilled in the use of their equipment. equip-ment. Most left their own hunting activities, jobs, and friends to join in the all-day successful search. |