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Mountain biker spends cold night in the woods

Goldstream Gazette5 March 2012JDF SAR era

Goldstream Gazette, 5 March 2012 ref-only
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Summary

A 21-year-old mountain biker spent a cold, wet night lost in a forest west of Mount Wells Regional Park on the Saturday before being found by Metchosin Search and Rescue. Russell Abraham got lost while mountain biking in the Sooke Hills area, west of Humpback Road and north of Sooke Road. As dusk approached Abraham realized he was lost and called his stepmother with his cell phone at about 5:30 p.m.; she told him to stay put and called the police. Langford Fire Rescue responded and called in Metchosin Search and Rescue at about 7:45 p.m.

Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.

Details

Headline	“Mountain biker spends cold night in the woods” Not recorded in the catalogue — derived from the page OCR. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
Publication	Goldstream Gazette
Date	5 March 2012
Page	Not applicable — web edition, no print page number
Era	JDF SAR era
Document type	news report
Original article	Goldstream Gazette — the article on the publisher’s own site ↗
Source	goldstreamgazette.com
Accessed	2026-07-16
Licensing	ref-only
Record confidence	confirmed

Archivist's note

The only Goldstream Gazette article in the archive and the only one in which the responding team is Metchosin Search and Rescue rather than the Juan de Fuca team. It is held because it documents the neighbouring team's operations in the shared Sooke Hills ground; 02_articles/2026-07-16_goldstream_gazette_search_index.md records it as the one genuinely new item found in that publication's archive.

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Scan of Goldstream Gazette, 5 March 2012 — the catalogued article — The article as printed.

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https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/2012/03/05/mountain-biker-spends-cold-night-in-the-woods/

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Archive notes

Web-sourced article with no print page number - see PHASE1_REPORT.md section 6. OCR quality 0.95 from the _searchable.pdf derivative; the text was read cleanly. The Juan de Fuca team is not mentioned in the article.

Record id 2012-03-05-goldstream-gazette-nopage-mountain-biker-cold-night. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2012-03-05_goldstream_gazette_mountain_biker_cold_night.pdf.

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