{"id":499974,"date":"2026-10-18T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:51:18","slug":"utah-hikers-rescued-after-being-stranded-in-freezing-temperatures-on-californias-mount-shasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499974\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah hikers rescued after being stranded in freezing temperatures on California&#8217;s Mount Shasta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Two hikers from Salt Lake City were rescued after what started as a day hike on California&#8217;s Mount Shasta turned into a day-and-a-half survival ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SiskiyouCountySheriff\/posts\/pfbid0wFYSwv1zzVdXVxmVr9YKYomegAvqbUCuQifRUH9aYwjnDmzPV4YDEjqBhGaXBCSNl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siskiyou County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> a 20-year-old woman and 19-year-old man set out on their hike early Monday morning. But they became stranded in freezing temperatures without enough food, water or warm clothing.<\/p>\n<p>They called for help Monday night at around 10:30 p.m. as they tried to make their way down the mountain, and were advised to keep descending because temperatures had reached the low teens. After a second call to rescuers, their cell phones died.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually became stranded at an elevation of 11,000 feet. Search crews spent much of Tuesday looking for them before hearing their shouts in the nearby Cascade Gulch.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers found the pair about a thousand feet below the trail after they&#8217;d been on the move for roughly 36 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Two hikers from Salt Lake City were rescued after what started as a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6996,6995,6813,1286,972,100,4201,6997,127,4509,821,4591,19],"class_list":["post-499974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499974","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=499974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}