LIHU’E — The Kaua’i Fire Department has called off a search for two Colorado campers who were reported missing in Kalalau Valley. The pair hiked out of the valley uninjured Tuesday night. Frances Logsdon and James Goyette left on a
LIHU’E — The Kaua’i Fire Department has called off a search for two Colorado campers who were reported missing in Kalalau Valley. The pair hiked out of the valley uninjured Tuesday night.
Frances Logsdon and James Goyette left on a camping trip into the valley on Oct. 27 and were expected to return Nov. 3.
When they failed to return five days later, a friend, Penelope Ihrig of Kapa’a, reported them missing.
Tuesday afternoon, the campers hiked out of the valley and returned to the home of a friend in Kapa’a , according to Fire Department Battalion Chief Dennis Smith.
The search was not initiated earlier, a fire department spokesman said, because there were no signs Logsdon and Goyette were in trouble.
The fire department decided to launch the search Tuesday after the couple failed to pick up their personal effects at Ihrig’s home.
Before the couple was found, a three-man search and rescue team from the Lihu’e Fire Station flew to the valley in a helicopter and talked with campers to try to locate the missing hikers.
Failing to find them, the search team flew to Hanakoa Valley where they talked to campers who had come across the pair and said they were headed back to Ke’e Beach.
Logsdon and Goyette returned to the Kapa’a home and were contacted by the fire department, Smith said.
