Over three days last week, four hunters in Upstate New York got lost while tracking deer and were rescued by New York State Department of Environmental forest rangers and other law enforcement personnel.
On the evening of Oct. 28, two 59-year-old hunters got lost in Dutton Ridge State Forest. A ranger patrolling nearby first found their vehicle, then found the lost hunters an hour later and assisted them out of the woods.
A 67-year-old hunter from Ancram got lost on the night of Oct. 29 in Lesser Wilderness State Forest. Using cell phone coordinates, rescuers located him in good health. His flashlight had died and his cell phone was almost dead…