SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Two hikers found dead in the Mojave Desert have been identified as a couple from Southern California.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says 60-year-old Gen Miake and 58-year-old Kathie Barber were discovered Saturday near Amboy Crater, an extinct cinder cone volcano.
The Orange County Register reports (https://bit.ly/2w3kujS) Barber called 911 to say she’d become separated from Miake and was out of water. A helicopter crew spotted the bodies a short time later.
The couple was from Yorba Linda, in Orange County.
Daytime temperatures in the area regularly top 100 degrees during summer months.
The crater, which rises above a wide, barren lava field, is popular among desert hikers despite the scorching heat.
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