Important!!!! - Ellen Coleman is missing

[KathyW]

I received an email from Ellen's family. She did not come home last night and her car is still in the tram parking lot.

Search and rescue has been notified and are looking for her. If you have any information that would help find her, please notify her family and search and rescue.

Email contacts for her family:

edit to delete email addresses now that Ellen is safe.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what we can do to help find her??? I will try to reach search and rescue to see if there's anything we can do to help and post the info.

Kathy

[KathyW]

If anyone has information that will help the search and rescue teams on the mountain find Ellen, please give them a call:


Contact info:

http://www.rmru.org/contact.htm

[Cy Kaicener]

This is very distressing. I think Scott is already helping out. I get a feeling from RMRU they dont want us on the ground but would appreciate any other help that they can get. Jim Bakos of RMRU who lives in Nuevo did not leave any contact info.

[Perry]

Here is a quote from Ellen's family:

We had assumed she had gotten stuck on the mountain but other sources said she was seen leaving the mountain at 1 pm with a man that had a beard.

I hope this is just car troubles and cell phone problems. This is disturbing. It's possible that someone mistakenly thought somebody else was Ellen, and she may still be up on the mountain. (Why would she not at least drive her car down the road?) I don't have proper clothing with me at work right now to go out on a night search, but if somebody provided me with winter boots and a jacket I would ride up the tram tonight...

-Perry
760 808-2205

[Perry]

If that source is the tram video cameras, then likely nobody is searching on the mountain.

In my car I have a pair of 9x30 redfeather snowshoes with deep stainless steel teeth. Also a pair of poles with powder baskets. I can cover a lot of ground in one night. Ideally, a helicopter and infrared night vision equipment would be the best, but we have had high winds today in Palm Springs.

[Perry]

Okay, there's a lot of cloud cover, so a GPS would be necessary. I would do it. It wouldn't surprise me if she's in the peak shelter.

[KathyW]

Her family said they think she's still up on the mountain. They are pretty sure that was someone else with the bearded man.

Search and rescue is on the mountain looking for her. I talked to Corporal Garvin (not sure if I'm spelling it correct). They have a number of teams on the mountain searching and told me it's pretty bad up there. His number is (edit to delete phone number now that the search is over) if anyone has any info that will help.

I wish there was something I could do to help, but rmru has coverage on the mountain and doesn't want others to end up in trouble up there if they head out in these conditions.

[Cy Kaicener]

Kathy - Thanks for the contact info at RMRU

[lee]

I was with 9 other hikers doing the tram to San Jacinto Peak via Miller Peak yesterday, Saturday:
http://hiking.meetup.com/217/calendar/6888746/
Ed, the organizer, and 3 others made the Summit. I and the rest topped out at 10.2K just below Miller peak. I am trying to reach Ed to ask him if he saw a blond lady at the peak. Ed got to the top around 1:30pm.
I remember seeing about 4 people in 2 separate groups passing us.
I and a few others took the 8am tram up. The rest of our group took the 2nd tram and we left the tram mountain station at 8:35am.
Let me know if I can provide further info.

[KathyW]

Here's a picture of Ellen for those who have not met her and were out on the mountain yesterday:

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