Missing B.C. hiker found by search and rescue with no shoes, in shorts

Searchers said he was lucky to be found, as he likely would not have made it through another night.

North Shore Rescue said a missing hiker was found “just in time” after he spent two cold and wet nights lost in the wilderness.

The search and rescue team said the man made several mistakes that put him in a life-threatening situation.

Rescue members first geared up early Thursday morning to search for the missing hiker, who was able to call 911 for help.

However, the man’s cellphone ran out of power shortly after the call, and no co-ordinates were able to be found through the man’s phone.

This left rescue officials with extremely limited information as to where he was lost.

All they had was that the man was lost somewhere along Lynn Creek and that he had lost the trail somewhere near Mountain Highway.

“Lynn Creek goes for many kilometres, right from the ocean up into the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park to Lynn Lake,” said Allan McMordie, a North Shore Rescue search manager.

“We had very little information about him. (He said) sometime last night, he crossed Lynn Creek, he was wet and cold.”