amden firefighters, Coastal Mountains Search and Rescue volunteers, and a crew from North East Mobile Health Services were at it again Monday evening, searching for a hiker who had called 911 after the sun had set, and was lost in Camden Hills State Park.
This is the second time in just more than one week that Camden Fire Dept. had been called to help find a lost hiker on the trails of Megunticook Mountain, after dark and in the deepening cold. Both hikers were alone, and unfamiliar with the area.
According to Camden Fire Chief Chris Farley, the Oct. 18 woman hiker, in her 20s, had set out in around 3 p.m. after parking her car at the start of the Carriage Trail on Mountain Street (Route 52), and began walking up a trail to the summit of Megunticook. It was on her way back down when she ran into trouble.