Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles was a man lost in the National forest, the Angeles.
20 Jan 65-year-old Angus Powelson and his son Ian went Hiking in the Red Box trail in the mountains North of Los Angeles. Ian came from new Hampshire, and his father flew in from Northern California. When Angus was tired, and Ian wanted to continue the walk, they agreed to meet near the car. The son returned at the appointed place about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but father was not there.
Ian Paulson contacted the Sheriff’s Crescenta valley around 6 PM. According to Lieutenant Mark Lopez, rescuers searched for the man until 2 o’clock in the morning and suspended the search because it was too thick fog.
The search resumed on the morning of January 21. It turned out that Angus Powelson remained in the mountains during cold nights, and then he went down to the highway and hitched a ride to Los Angeles. His son said he was in search-and-rescue helicopter Monday morning, when a crew member signaled that Angus found. Ian Powelson happily told me that sighed with relief when he heard it. He thought that his father died. Sunday night was very cold, but Angus managed to avoid frostbite.
It seems that Paulson turned in the wrong direction and was on the other side of the mountain around 16: 00. Randomly along the trail, he found a sleeping bag and used it to keep warm. In the morning the man got up, pressed through the thicket to the side of a mountain and about 9-00 appeared on Big Tujunga Canyon Road. In the end, Angus got to the Angeles Forest Highway, where the driver drove the man to downtown Los Angeles. The wife of the tourist was told that he was not injured and was thankful to be alive.
