An 87-year-old woman reported missing Thursday in the Sawtooth Berry Fields near Trout Lake was found in good condition Sunday morning about 2 miles from where she disappeared, according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office.
A fixed-wing aircraft assisting in the search spotted the woman, Wasco Fujiwara of The Dalles, Ore., who was sitting on a log and waving to the plane above, according to the sheriff’s office. She was about 2 miles southeast of where she had been seen last.
Fujiwara, who suffers from early-stage dementia, was evaluated by searchers and brought back by horseback, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The woman disappeared at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday after picking huckleberries with her 57-year-old daughter, Lisa Fujiwara of Bend, Ore. The two women became separated.
