Naked hiker rescued on mountain trail
By Heath Urie
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Boulder County sheriff’s investigators are trying to figure out why a disoriented woman in her mid-20s was hiking naked on a mountain trail in the snow Saturday afternoon.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Parker said the woman was spotted by another hiker along the Sanitas Ridge Trail about 4:25 p.m. in north Boulder.
“He came across a naked female on the trail, and at 14 degrees, he thought that was an issue,” Parker said.
Sheriff’s deputies and Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks rangers searched frantically for the woman until finding the woman on the trail about 5 p.m.
Emergency workers brought the woman down the trail about a half-mile to an ambulance. She was transported to Boulder Community Hospital for treatment, Parker said.
Parker said the woman did not have any obvious injuries, and there was “no indication” a crime had occurred. He said the woman has not explained why she was outside in the freezing conditions.
Parker said authorities have identified the woman, but would not release her name because she is considered “a victim.”
The trail the woman was found along connects the Sanitas Valley Trail to the Mount Sanitas Trail about a half-mile west of Fourth Street on Mapleton Avenue.
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