Search for missing Marine in Eldorado Canyon
Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 30, 2006 at midnight
An intensive ground search is under way in Eldorado Canyon State Park for a missing U.S. Marine who fell last night while hiking and may have suffered a head injury.
Boulder Sheriff’s Commander Phil West said Lance Hering, 21, from south Boulder, who is on leave from duty in Iraq, hasn’t been seen since about 4 a.m. when a buddy left him to go for help in the park five miles south of Boulder.
Hering was hiking with Steve Powers, 20, when they started to free-climb a rock face near the trail that runs between Eldorado Canyon and Walker Ranch, siad West. "Hering fell about 15 feet and then rolled down a steep slope another 30 feet, injuring his head," West said.
Powers stayed with him until he regained consciousness and then went to get help.
"He called our office shortly after 5 a.m. and we were up there relatively fast, but when the deputies went to where Powers left him, Hering was gone," West said.
About 40 searchers, including three dogs and a mounted patrol, are looking through the rugged terrain in the area where he disappeared.
CBS News 4’s helicopter did fly-overs in the area but didn’t spot him from the air.
Local residents have been alerted, as have area hospitals.
Hering is a white male approximately 5-feet-8, and was last seen wearing long white pants and a torn black T-shirt.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Boulder County sheriff at 303-441-4444.
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