Family missing for 2 weeks rescued from snowed-in RV

Associated Press
Chicago Tribune
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Glendale, Oregon (US):
Six family members who disappeared more than two weeks ago after setting out on an overnight trip were found Tuesday in a mountainous area of southwestern Oregon, surviving in their snowbound recreational vehicle on dehydrated food and other provisions.
Two parents were found first Tuesday after they had left their stranded RV on Monday to seek help. Rescuers then located the RV and the four others, including two children.All six were reunited Tuesday afternoon in this southern Oregon community.
Peter Stivers and Marlo Hill-Stivers ran up to a van as it pulled into town with the two children and with Stivers' mother and stepfather.The six left Ashland on March 4 to go to the coast, a trip that normally takes a couple of hours across the mountains.
But they got lost, and ultimately they got stuck in up to 4 feet of snow at about 3,800 feet. The family tried to dig the RV out by hand, but could not, Stivers said.
Mar 22, 2006