A 40-year-old man who went missing while hiking was found dead on an El Capitan County Preserve trail, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n
The man was reported missing Sunday around 10:50 a.m. by his family after he failed to return from a hike on El Cajon Mountain in Lakeside, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office. The unidentified hiker began his trek around 8 a.m. Saturday on a trailhead located in the 13700 block of Blue Sky Ranch Road.<\/p>\n
Officials said the Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Unit, deputies and detectives from the Lakeside Sheriff’s Substation began searching the area for the missing hiker Sunday. A sheriff’s helicopter crew also assisted in the search effort.<\/p>\n
The body of the missing hiker was found near one of the hiking trails just east of the trailhead around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the sheriff’s office reported.<\/p>\n
The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old man who went missing while hiking was found dead on an El Capitan County Preserve trail,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,18334,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-232898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}