Over 100 rescuers in Oregon searching for ‘experienced’ hunter: Sheriff

A multi-agency search is underway for an “experienced” hunter who has been missing in Oregon’s Mount Hood National Forest since Friday evening, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

Devon Dobek, 51, was reported missing at approximately 6:20 p.m. on Friday, the sheriff’s office said in a press release over the weekend.

Dobek, who is from Hubbard, Oregon, was “due to return from his hunting trip late Friday but had messaged a friend that he was returning early after getting a deer,” officials said.

Deputies found the missing hunter’s truck near the Fish Creek Trailhead on Friday, but “there was no sign of a deer or of Mr. Dobek,” sparking a multi-agency search-and-rescue operation, officials said…

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