| Name
of dead hiker released
By Amy Macavinta
April 2, 2008 | The name of a man who died while hiking
in western Box Elder County over the weekend has been
released.
According to the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office,
46-year-old Allan Issacson of Salt Lake City died after
coming disoriented in Clear Creek on a night when temperatures
dropped to 10 below zero.
Box Elder County Sheriff Lynn Yeates said dispatch
received the call at about 4 a.m. Monday. Yeates said
he, two deputies, and a Search and Rescue arrived at
Clear Creek and set up a base camp at 8 a.m. Just an
hour and half into the search, they found Isaacson in
a ravine where he had frozen to death overnight.
Isaacson had been hiking with his friend, James Turner,
47, of Layton. Turner spent several hours searching
for Isaacson on his own before he finally made the two-hour
drive to Snowville, where he could get reception on
his cell phone.
Clear Creek is a popular camping area, approximately
80 miles west of Brigham City, near the Utah-Idaho border.
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