Lost hiker

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. — At first, the rescuers couldn’t believe their ears: After four days of grueling searching, they suddenly heard a faint female voice calling for help.

Over the next 90 agonizing minutes, the cries for help — and first faint, and then louder — led the search and rescue crew across a canyon, into a drainage and up several waterfalls to a near-vertical slope where lost hiker Kyndall Jack was clinging to rocky outcropping no bigger than a yoga mat.

FARMINGTON — Three boys agree they would pack more food and water the next time they go hiking, just in case they need to spend an extra night in the wilderness.

Max Klingler, 10, and his cousins, Sam Bradford, 10, and Jasper Bradford, 7, were flown by AirMed from Ricks Canyon in Farmington to the Davis County Justice Center where their mothers greeted them. They left Monday to go on an overnight hike with Peter Bradford, 36.

OGDEN — A 70-year-old hiker who was lost overnight near Malan’s Basin on the bench east of Ogden was lucky enough not to need a full rescue crew Wednesday morning.

ALTA -- Crews are searching for a 48-year-old Alta man who told his girlfriend he was going on a hike Monday and hasn't been heard from since.

GREEN RIVER — A North Carolina man crawled four days across the Utah desert after breaking his leg on a solo hike, inspired by a Hollywood movie about a man who cut off his own arm to save himself after being trapped by a boulder in the same canyon.