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Missing Hiker Located in Big Tujunga Canyon

Search teams located the man several hours later after he was reported missing.

LA CRESCENTA (CNS) - A 28-year-old Pasadena man who became lost while hiking Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest was safe today thanks to a rescue by a search and rescue team, according to the sheriff's department.

The man became separated from the rest of his party around 7 p.m. Thursday, officials at the Los Angeles County sheriff's Crescenta Valley Station said.

He was found around 10:15 p.m. huddling uninjured off the trail near Big Tujunga Dam, the sheriff's department reported.

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