The Altadena Search and Rescue team is still (7:30 AM) looking for four mountain bikers who went missing Sunday night.
According to a press release from the Altadena Sheriff Station, search and rescue was activated at about 7 PM Sunday when the bikers were reported several hours overdue from a bicycle ride from Mt. Wilson to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory turnout on Windsor Avenue.
The four men, ages 28-38, left for the ride from approximately 10 AM-3 PM Sunday. According to the press release, family members located the grouop’s automobiles at the Windsor turnout. The release says that Montrose Search & Rescue team members were requested at about 9 PM. One sheriff’s department helicoper aided in the search, which went on through the night until 4 AM this morning.
According to the release, other search and rescue teams will be requested and search aircraft resumed this morning.
The missing cyclists are from Glendale, North Hollywood, Rialto, and Sunland.
UPDATE: Watch commander Lt. Angela Shepherd said that the four were spotted in Bear Canyon by the helicopter, and were walked out by search and rescue. There were no injuries, she said. Scanner just said (10:08 AM) that they’re in a van, warming up.
Chris L. said…
Sounds like they were just found. I sent the link to my girlfriend (who is home and rode the Mt. Lowe fire road yesterday) and she thought she had seen them descending so she called the sheriff station who told her they had just been found.
Monday, December 23, 2013 at 08:52 AM
Marty said…
Sounds like they made a right into Bear Canyon and spent the night (by accident of course)
Monday, December 23, 2013 at 09:24 AM
Bob said…
From Mt. Wilson, the Mt. Lowe Fire Road takes a sharp turn to the left where the Bear Mountain Trail continues straight. There is no doubt that for former is a fire road and the latter is a trail, but if these guys didn’t know where they were going, I can understand the mistake. And once you’re down in the canyon you pretty much have to find your way back north to Switzer Falls or a left down the Arroyo Seco. I don’t think either is suitable for mountain bikes.
Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:05 AM
William Korn said…
The front range of the San Gabriels is simultaneously far too difficult a terrain for lots of of people and far too close to millions of people who don’t have the first idea about how to traverse it safely. There’s no way to keep such folks out of the area, but I’m all in a favor of levying a “fool’s fee” on those whose inexperience and/or stupidity put them in a situation that the rescue services have to get them out of.
Monday, December 23, 2013 at 01:00 PM
Laura Monteros said…
Drove by the staging area at Windsor and Ventura twice this moring–about 7 and about 9:15 or so. It was packed with news vans and black-and-whites. KTLA reported just after 9 a.m. that the bikers had been located.
Monday, December 23, 2013 at 02:34 PM