On Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m., Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from a concerned mother who stated her daughter was overdue from hiking Mount Marcy and may not have a light source. Forest Rangers Foutch, Rooney, and Snye responded. At 1:30 a.m., rangers located the 18-year-old’s vehicle at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Complex and then searched the trails from the trailhead and the Adirondak Loj to Marcy Dam. At 6 a.m., Ranger Rooney located the hiker from Potsdam on the Van Ho Mountain trail in good health but without an operational light source. Ranger Rooney escorted the hiker out of the woods and to their vehicle.