The two hikers got lost when bad weather and increasing darkness made it so they couldn't see the trail markings.
Following an hours-long search, a six-person team led by state police troopers was able to rescue two hikers who became stranded in the woods in southwestern Massachusetts during Tuesday's winter storm.
Authorities told the hikers to stay where they were as they assembled a search and rescue team equipped with snowmobiles, state police said. Troopers, area firefighters, Environmental Police and Department of Conservation and Recreation rangers set up a command post at the Egremont Fire Department on Route 23.
A short time later, the six-person search and rescue team -- consisting of two state police troopers, three Sheffield firefighters and a DCR ranger -- left the command post for the trail entrance on snowmobiles. Because of the two-foot-deep snow, however, they were unable to drive onto the trail. Shortly after midnight, the rescue team left their snowmobiles behind and began the two-mile walk into the forest to the hikers' location.
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