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Missing hunter recovered alive
by Outspoken on Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:05 am
Missing hunter recovered alive
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff writer Morning Sentinel
MADRID TOWNSHIP -- A hunter missing since Monday from an area south of Tumbledown Mountain was found ice-covered but alive Wednesday afternoon by a snowmobiler.
Steven Wright, 53, of Woodford, Vt., described by authorities as an experienced hunter, was found by Donald Eisenhaur, 68, of Madrid.
Eisenhaur said Wednesday evening that he found Wright, nearly frozen, covered with ice, wet and barely conscious, kneeling on a trail that Eisenhaur had broken earlier in the day. Eisenhaur, who had been out breaking trails and looking for moose sheds, said he believed Wright had heard the machine and dragged himself up from a gully to where he found the tracks.
"I guess I was in the right place at the right time," Eisenhaur said. He said he did not know how Wright had stayed alive since Monday through the freezing temperatures and snow without a tent or provisions.
"I loaded him in front of me and sort of cradled him as we rode out. We were in the middle of nowhere and I kept talking to him, telling him I was going to get him out and to keep hanging in there."
Wright, who had been on a hunting trip with friends before his disappearance, had walked nearly 11 miles due north from where he was reported missing. He was found on the west side of Jackson Mountain, about 15 miles southwest of Route 4.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4536295.html
By BETTY JESPERSEN
Staff writer Morning Sentinel
MADRID TOWNSHIP -- A hunter missing since Monday from an area south of Tumbledown Mountain was found ice-covered but alive Wednesday afternoon by a snowmobiler.
Steven Wright, 53, of Woodford, Vt., described by authorities as an experienced hunter, was found by Donald Eisenhaur, 68, of Madrid.
Eisenhaur said Wednesday evening that he found Wright, nearly frozen, covered with ice, wet and barely conscious, kneeling on a trail that Eisenhaur had broken earlier in the day. Eisenhaur, who had been out breaking trails and looking for moose sheds, said he believed Wright had heard the machine and dragged himself up from a gully to where he found the tracks.
"I guess I was in the right place at the right time," Eisenhaur said. He said he did not know how Wright had stayed alive since Monday through the freezing temperatures and snow without a tent or provisions.
"I loaded him in front of me and sort of cradled him as we rode out. We were in the middle of nowhere and I kept talking to him, telling him I was going to get him out and to keep hanging in there."
Wright, who had been on a hunting trip with friends before his disappearance, had walked nearly 11 miles due north from where he was reported missing. He was found on the west side of Jackson Mountain, about 15 miles southwest of Route 4.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4536295.html
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