Searchers find overdue canoeists in BWCA
Updated June 2, 6:29 a.m. | Posted: June 1, 7:16 p.m.
Rescue crews have found two people reported overdue in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northeastern Minnesota.
Around 1 a.m. Friday, an aircraft operated by the State Patrol found the two canoers near Oyster Lake after they used a flashlight to signal the plane, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The two canoers, a 66-year-old Brooklyn Park man and a 65-year-old woman from New Hope, were then picked up by a helicopter from the Duluth Air National Guard. They were uninjured but taken to an Ely hospital as a precautionary measure.
There were only two people in the group, not three as originally believed, authorities said.
The canoers had been due out of the Boundary Waters on Monday.
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