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RescueOutcome: Rescued by SARLost

Rescue — Mount Chocorua, Jul 29, 2008

·Mount Chocorua·Champney Falls Trail

12-year-old boy from Florida · party of 4

A 12-year-old boy from Florida, hiking with his family of four, reached the Mount Chocorua summit and headed back down the Piper Trail. He got ahead of his parents and took a wrong turn at a trail junction onto the Champney Falls Trail; his parents called 911. U.S. Forest Service personnel located the boy on the Champney Falls Trail and brought him down, reuniting him with his family at the Piper Trailhead by 5 p.m.

What we can learn

Start as a group and finish as a group: stay together throughout a hike, especially at trail junctions where it is easy to get separated.

Contributing factors

Off trail
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