By Dian Ver Valen
The Times
Missing Hikers Found Safe and Sound
Search Teams Spent Two Days Looking for Portland Backpackers
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A sign marks the entrance to the Panjab wilderness area where two Portland hikers were lost.
DAYTON – The search for two overdue hikers from Portland ended happily last week after search groups spent two days in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness, near Panjab Trailhead south of Dayton, attempting to locate the men.
Chris Warden, 20, and Harrison Salton, 23, both students of Portland's Reed College, found their own way out of the woods late Wednesday morning, March 25; they left Portland on Saturday and had been expected home on Monday, March 23.
Warden and Salton, though experienced hikers, were on their first trip to the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness, according to the Columbia County...
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