Barking Dog Leads Rescue Crews to Hiker Who Plunged Off Hawaii Trail

A woman who tumbled nearly 200 feet down a slope off a hiking trail in Hawaii was rescued by first responders led to her by her barking dog, according to authorities.

The Honolulu Fire Department said in a news release that it responded to a 911 call about a missing hiker on the Lanipo Trail in Kaimuki, one of the oldest communities in Oahu, on Monday. A 17-person search and rescue team began searching for the hiker from the air and on foot.

Separately, another hiker, Kelsey Colpitts, had stopped to locate a strange noise she’d heard on the trail. “I heard this kind of whimpering and loud barking,” Colpitts told KHON2. Assuming it was a dog, “I looked around and I could hear it, it sounded really close so I tried to get a closer look and look over the edge, but there were no trees to hang on to and I didn’t know how I was going to get it and it was barking louder and louder, and it sounded like it was in distress.”

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