Overdue canoeists found in BWCA

[Lee Borgersen]

   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.

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Around 1 a.m. Friday, an aircraft operated by the State Patrol found the two canoeists 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 canoeists  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 canoeists had been due out of the Boundary Waters on Monday.

[Rebel SS]

Musta stopped at the bingo hall on the way downriver.