North Carolina hiker found alive days after going missing from Appalachian Trail in Connecticut

A 60-year-old hiker from North Carolina was found alive days after she went missing along the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut, officials said Friday.

Marta Renee Bowen was several miles south of where she was last seen at her campsite on the Appalachian Trail in Kent, Connecticut, said Department of Protection spokesman Paul Copleman of the state environment at the News-Times, a Danbury-based newspaper.

“The missing adult female has been safely located and is being treated by emergency services,” Connecticut State Police L Troop Lichfield wrote on Facebook. “We thank everyone for the help!”

Bowen had been lost on the trail since Wednesday morning, until she met other hikers on Friday and called 911 from one of their cell phones, Copleman said.

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Bowen, a resident of Durham, North Carolina, is a psychiatrist at Butner’s Central Regional Hospital, the Raleigh News and Observer reported, citing state records.

The search for Marta Bowen began on Wednesday after her two companions noticed she was missing from their campsite on Wednesday morning. (Kent Volunteer Fire Department, Inc.)

Bowen was with two friends when they stopped at a backpacker campsite along the trail on Tuesday, officials said. Her friends noticed that she was missing the next morning and had forgotten her cell phone and hiking gear.

Marta Bowen was found alive Friday after days of searching on the Appalachian Trail near Kent, Connecticut. (Kent Volunteer Fire Department, Inc.)

Bowen’s friends and officials thought Bowen may have gone to an area off the trail and got lost.

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Crews launched a search for Bowen on the ground and in the air using ATVs, helicopters and drones. Volunteer firefighters from Kent, Sherman and Warren joined the search on Friday.

Crews used helicopters and drones to search for Marta Bowen from the air. (Kent Volunteer Fire Department, Inc.)

Bowen was hiking part of the Appalachian Trail, the longest trail in the world that stretches nearly 2,200 miles, according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. The trail crosses 14 states, from the mountains of Georgia to Maine.

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Kent, where Bowen’s research took place, is located near the New York state border and about 90 miles north of New York.