Larry Layman, 64, of Reno, Nev., went missing Sunday morning, only to be found Monday morning.
Layman had been hiking with two co-workers to Pyramid Peak from Horsetail Falls in South Lake Tahoe, said Dep. Greg Almos of El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue. He began to “have issues with his canine,” Almos said, and so told his co-workers to go on without him and that he would meet them in the parking lot.
His co-workers arrived at the peak around 11:30 a.m. When they arrived back at the parking lot that evening, Layman was not there, Almos said.
“Search and Rescue was dispatched at midnight and searched areas of probability,” Almos said. “They came out without Layman.”
The morning of Aug. 20 saw a full rescue team, with 20 volunteers, searching for the missing hiker, Almos said.
“He was located by another recreational hiker and she called 911,” he said. “The teams converged on them. There were no medical issues, no exposure issues that we know of.”
As of 10:30 a.m., he was still being escorted out of the forest.
Josh said: I was on team 4 and about a half mile up the trail when H20 spotted the subject. The other three teams were all Tahoe folk including the other half of my team. Team three got to the subject about one minute before my team got to him and we walked him back to the IC together
Image of GPS tracks from command post to where subject was located and walked out. (Google Earth image was from 6-11)
