Hiker Rescued in Sierra Nevada After Being Partially Paralyzed by a Plant

A search and rescue team located a hiker in Inyo County earlier this month—about 2 miles from a trailhead near Bishop, California—prompting officials to remind visitors in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains to keep their cellphones charged in case of an emergency. Inyo County Search and Rescue received a call June 12 at 6:30 p.m. for a hiker stranded on Taboose Trail after running into snow on the Sierra Nevada range leading into Kings Canyon National Park. According to authorities, the trail is the “nearest exit out of the Sierra Nevada, so she took it.” The hiker, who has not been identified, was bitten by “what she thought was a spider,” rescue workers said on Facebook. After the bite, she “was unable to feel the skin on her legs” and could not finish her descent to the trailhead, authorities said. She managed to call for a rescue, they added, then her phone battery died....