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8/23/06
Approximately 8:00 p.m. Wed. night Shandaken
police got a call from the KJ Office of Public
Safety that two males were lost while hiking in
the Catskills Mountains.
The hiking party of four went into the woods at
the Slide Mountain Trailhead around 4:00
p.m. with one sandwich and a small bottle of
water, police said. Two of the men found there
way out and hitched a ride back to their camp in
Liberty NY. They called to report the
other two - 30-year-old Moshe Silberstein of
Lakewood NJ, and 15-year-old Mordechai
Ungarischer, of Brooklyn - didn't come back. A
search started at 9:00 p.m. and was called off
"well after" midnight, police said. The search
resumed Thursday morning with Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC) police, state
forest rangers, a state police K-9 unit, Town of
Shandaken police, New York Rescue Response
Team members and KJ volunteers.
Approximately 9:00 a.m., the two have found
there way back out about 4 miles away from where
they begin and found a payphone. "They were a
little scuffed up, but otherwise OK," said
Detective Fred Holland, of the Town of Shandaken
police.
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