On April 25, KISAR received a call out request from the Alaska State Troopers to respond to a report of a pair of lost hikers in the Monashka Mountain area at White Sands Beach. We had scant information on their intended route and 2 cell phone tower ‘pings’ placed them in the area of Pelenga Bay near Azimuth Point west of Termination Point. Brief conversations between the hikers and a relative in town provided some ambiguous hints as to their possible locations before the hikers moved out of cell phone range. The KISAR members responding as a hasty team were Philip Tschersich, Shae Long, John Sikes, Meg Disaia, and Ed Eastman. We planned on hiking out to Pelenga Bay to search the forest trails between Termination Point and Azimuth Point based primarily on the cell phone location data. After mustering at White Sands and setting out for Pelenga Bay, the hikers appeared out of the brush from the direction of the Monashka Reservoir Ridge. They had hiked the Monashka Mountain – Monashka Reservoir loop and lost the trail in low clouds, descending through heavy brush to the reservoir shore and then regaining the trail after a strenuous detour.