UPDATE: In Yosemite National Park, Fullerton Fire Chief Wolfgang Knabe says both missing hikers/firefighters Javier Avelar and Dave Brown have been found.
Knabe says Brown walked into the ranger station a few hours before noon and was talking to the ranger service.
There’s no word yet why the pair got separated.
(KMJ) – The search continues inside Yosemite National Park for two hikers who are overdue from a six-day backpacking trip.
The National Park Service says Javier Avelar and Dave Brown were due to wrap up a hiking trip though Pleasant Valley and along the north side of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir on Sunday, September 11th. They have yet to return.
Now the Park Service is asking anyone who was in the this area between September 6-12th who had contact with these two men to contact Yosemite National Park Dispatch at (209) 379-1992
