Six night searches for hikers – several of them overnight – marked the week for state Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers in the Adirondacks.

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Town of Dannemora

State police requested DEC assistance in the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 23. A 70-year-old woman from Ellenberg had taken her two grandchildren hiking on Lyon Mountain, and when they failed to return, the woman’s husband reported them missing.

A forest ranger and Lyon Mountain fire department volunteers searched for the trio until 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Aug. 24. The search was suspended at that time until later in the morning, when four rangers, along with volunteers, restarted the search. A ranger found the trio at 7:14 a.m. They were evaluated and released by Lyon Mountain emergency medical services.

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Town of Indian Lake

Two hikers called for help after becoming lost while hiking at Castle Rock on Wednesday, Aug. 24. A 29-year-old man from Redford, Michigan, and a 30-year-old woman from South Hadley, Massachusetts, lost the trail after dark.

DEC dispatch got a text message screen shot of the pair’s GPS coordinates, and a ranger located the pair in good health at that location. They were escorted to their car just before midnight.

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Town of Johnsburg

A 14-year-old boy from Milton, Massachusetts, was reported lost after hiking Peaked Mountain on Wednesday, Aug. 24. The boy left the summit of the mountain ahead of the rest of his group and hiked down the opposite side of the mountain.

Rangers located the boy in a drainage and returned him to his family at the trailhead at 4 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25.

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Town of Keene

A 19-year-old man from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, became lost while descending Mount Marcy on Saturday, Aug. 27.

A ranger responded and searched until 1 a.m. Sunday.

The search resumed at 6 a.m. with four rangers, an interior outpost caretaker and a summit steward. The man was located at Adirondak Loj two hours later in good health. He had taken the wrong trail and ended up climbing Haystack Mountain and spending the night in Panther Gorge.

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Town of Newcomb

The Lake Colden interior outpost caretaker notified DEC dispatch of an overdue hiker on the night of Saturday, Aug. 27. The man was supposed to meet his hiking party but failed to show up.

Two rangers came in from the Upper Works trailhead and arrived at the outpost at 3 a.m. Sunday. They, the caretaker and an assistant forest ranger renewed the search efforts. The caretaker located the man just before 8 a.m. near the Calamity Brook lean-to. He was then reunited with his party.

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Town of Fine

Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, DEC dispatch received a request for help for a man who was having an allergic reaction to bee stings near the summit of Cat Mountain.

Forest rangers and rescue personnel responded via boat, but they still had to hike 3 miles to reach the man. The man was brought to the boat and then to a Cranberry Lake boat launch, where a Star Lake ambulance was waiting and transported him to Clinton-Fine Hospital in Star Lake.