Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta at Dusk, originally uploaded by Dan90266.

Two hikers are missing on Mount Shasta.

According to an SCSO press release, the call was lost before a transfer could be made to the Sheriff’s Department. Several attempts to call the number back were unsuccessful. At about 9:55 p.m. on Saturday, Frank Machado of North Carolina called the Sheriff’s Department to report that he had received a telephone call from his mother, Patricia Dolores Giamoni, 37 of Apex, North Carolina, telling him she and a friend, Salvador Cervantes Frias, age 41 of Tracy, California, had climbed Mount Shasta, high winds had come up and they needed help.

Machado was able to provide one-half of the GPS coordinate showing latitude only. The Sheriff’s Department had just completed another rescue on the mountain and started planning for the latest report of the two missing hikers in trouble, the release said. The car the missing hikers were driving was found parked at Bunny Flat on Mount Shasta.

Hopefully they will make it down OK.

Update: They have been found.

Salvador Frias, 41, of Millbrae, and his friend Patricia Dolores Giamoni, 37, of Apex, N.C., turned up at about 11:30 p.m. Monday at a forest products company in Weeds, about 10 miles from the 14,162-foot peak, a sheriff's dispatcher said.

The two were dehydrated but in relatively good condition, authorities said.

Good News!