Teens rescued off Burke Mountain after hiking ordeal

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COQUITLAM (NEWS 1130) – What was supposed to be an hour-long excursion turned into an all-day ordeal for three young hikers in Coquitlam this weekend. Three teenage girls are now safely off Burke Mountain thanks to search and rescue crews.

The girls — who are about 17-years-old — had set out around 10 a.m. on Sunday.

However, Coquitlam Search and Rescue Manager Michael Coyle says Mounties got in touch with them around 5:30 p.m.

Coyle explains the girls went off trail and ended up in the Coquitlam watershed while coming down the mountain. “We inserted some team — a group of three into a creek bed and they hiked in to where the subjects were and managed to get them across the creek and back to a logging road, and then we drove them out.”

He adds the girls showed good sense by not crossing the creek on their own and calling for help instead. “It’s pretty standard here in BC. People think they can go downhill and that they’ll find a road and that’s what they thought they could do.”

Coyle says it’s never a good idea to go downhill thinking you’ll find a road because you’ll always run into a creek, a gorge, or a cliff that stops you.

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