Search for Mount Hood hikers becomes recovery effort

By doris | Published: December 17, 2009

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(CNN) — The search for two missing hikers on Oregon’s Mount Hood has moved from a search operation into a recovery operation, authorities said Wednesday.

“It was our hope that we might get a window today to take a last look,” Clackamas County, Oregon, Sheriff Craig Roberts told reporters. “Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.”

Anthony Vietti, 24; Luke Gullberg, 26; and Katie Nolan, 29, set out about 1 a.m. Friday on what was to have been a fairly easy “semi-technical” hike in which they would have descended the south side of the mountain, Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Meyers has said.

Gullberg was found dead Saturday from hypothermia.

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