Find tips on how to safely view an eclipse here. His cause of death was hypothermia, with blunt force trauma to the head as a contributing factor, according the the Riverside County coroner’s office.Remember to never look directly at the Sun, even during an eclipse. On March 1, 2014, a Corona man who set off on a mountain bike ride along the trail was killed. The trail, however, does have its dangers. There are some spots that are pretty steep, but if you stay on the main part it’s not all that treacherous.” If you stay on the trail it is pretty safe. “It’s really a peaceful trail,” she said. She said the trail stretches more than 5 miles through brush-covered hills. “We never expected (rescues) when we moved out to this quiet little area.” Melanie Catalano, who has lived in the area for two years, said she frequently sees night hikers along the trail in the Cleveland National Forest and has seen five rescues of lost hikers there. “You have to be an experienced hiker, I would imagine, to hike in that area at night,” he said. Mercado said the two women were inexperienced hikers who had hiked only once before on the trail, which is a popular spot for day and night hiking. There were a plethora of hugs from family and well-wishers before the two were led away by rescuers to a debriefing.
Jasmine Jackson covered her face as news cameramen pressed in to photograph them as they walked down from the hills to waiting family. Ira Jackson, Jasmine’s father, said the two hikers were embarrassed by the incident. “They just need to go to sleep and get some food,” he said. Peter Sanchez said the two women “look great” despite their ordeal. They were walking on the trail and heard his calls for them, Amanda Sanchez said. He said the two women had heard the helicopter Tuesday night, but they couldn’t see it. I was wishing I could find them and I found them, so I feel great.” They were trying to find their way home,” said Peter Sanchez, Amanda’s father, who spotted them about the same time they saw him. Then, about 3:30 p.m., minutes after the helicopter had landed, family members of the two women found the hikers – about 1,000 yards from the command post. Searchers noticed caves and mines in the hills not far from a command post on Burrero Way, but rescuers were reticent to descend steep, narrow entrances, so a team of mine-searching experts from the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Mountain Search and Rescue Team were flown in by helicopter to help.Ī rescuer suggested to family members that they help search the area where the mines were located, Corona police Sgt. Sanchez and 23-year-old Jackson, of Corona, were inexperienced hikers traversing the Skyline Trail, which winds through steep, brush-covered hills above a housing development into the forest. Somebody said it would last 30 minutes the way we were going, but they sent us the wrong way.” “I’m just so grateful,” Sanchez, 22, of Murrieta, said moments after family members and mountain search and rescue team members from Los Angeles County led them to safety. A previous version of this story was unclear about the cause of death.Īmanda Sanchez and Jasmine Jackson set out on an hourlong hike along a trail leading into the Cleveland National Forest south of Corona on Tuesday afternoon that turned into a 23-hour nightmare involving a large-scale search that ended when family members found them Wednesday. CLARIFICATION: A Corona man found in the Cleveland National Forest in March 2014 died of hypothermia, with blunt impact injuries to the head as a significant condition, according the the Riverside County coroner’s office.
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