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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. - A hiker from Germany who trekked the Pacific Crest Trail for months, had to be rescued in Washington state by the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team on Tuesday. 
  
 During a press conference on Wednesday in Snohomish, Katharina Groene credits the sheriff’s department for finding her, but also a fellow hiker who she met just a few days prior. 
  
 “My faith in humanity is definitely restored, so box checked,” said Groene. 
  
 Groene started on the Pacific Crest Trail in May. The trail is more than 2,600 miles and goes from Southern California to the Canadian border. 
  
 It was on Wednesday, October 24, when she met another hiker, Nancy Abel of Sultan. Abel said she was making her way back to Sultan from Stevens Pass when she met Groene. 
  
 “I have a daughter her age, who by the way lives in Germany. And my daughter has a similar spirit of adventure,” Abel said. 
  
 After talking for a couple of hours, Abel tried to convince Groene not to continue north to Stehekin because of expected cold weather conditions. 
  
 “I knew she didn’t have snowshoes. And I knew she’d be up there by herself. And I’d been through a storm in the same area and we couldn't go anywhere for three days. It was terrifying,” Abel said. 
  
 Groene, however, ultimately decided she was equipped for the weather and continued on the trail. Just days after their meeting she ran into snowy weather at Glacier Peak. 
  
 “My food was running out. I was stretching it. I had one Pop Tart,” Groene said. She even decided to contact her loved ones to let them know she might die on the trail, “I already, via WhatsApp, informed my parents, apologized for dying on the PCT, for risking too much, for being too stupid to inform people how many days I’m going to take.” 
  
 But Abel’s intuition about the weather conditions and the German hiker's safety concerned her. She had started a forum on Northwest Hikers. Abel said that one person had responded saying they had met Groene near Lake Valhalla. 
  
 Abel believed she was in danger from the weather and was not going to make it to Stehekin. Abel contacted Search and Rescue on Oct. 29 to report her concerns, the sheriff’s department said. 
  
 “She (Abel) had a pretty good idea, in her mind on where she was going to be based on weather and the amount of weight she was going to be carrying,” said Sgt. John Adams of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team. 
  
 Search and Rescue launched their helicopter, SNOHAWK1 despite bad weather conditions. 
  
 “We had some moderate to heavy showers between here and the mountains,” said Bill Quistorf, Chief Pilot. “There’s no weather reporting stations or WSDOT cameras showing what the conditions are, other than at Stevens Pass.” 
  
 The big clue came near Mica Lake when pilot Einar Espeland found a set of human tracks in the snow. 
  
 “I did spot one set tracks, we got down real low to verify they were human tracks. It was one single set and the direction they were heading, they were headed north,” said Espeland. 
  
 The crew then flew to the next ridge next to the Milk Creek drainage above the snow line to see if they could re-acquire the tracks. That’s when they found Groene. 
  
 “I had just spotted her in the tall timber. She had just come into a little opening. She was wearing a reddish jacket, which was nice, it was bright,” Espeland said. 
  
 However, the crew was running low on fuel and they had to find a landing area, which proved to be difficult because of the deceiving landscape that looked flat but was really sloped. 
  
 “I told Einar to hop out. We had some logs and branches around us. I told him to grab three logs and then you put those three logs underneath the right skid,” said Quistorf. 
  
 But eventually, the crew found Groene. 
  
 “I was crying. I was screaming for help before,” she recalled. 
  
 Groene said she is grateful for Abel for saving her life. 
  
 “I knew who called. But who does call for a stranger? Like no people call for strangers,” Groene said to Abel during the press conference. 
  
 Abel replied with a laugh, "Well, you weren’t a stranger. You talked my ear off for two hours. I knew your whole life story by the time we parted ways.” 
  
 The women said they will be lifelong friends. According to the sheriff’s department, Groene will be staying with Abel until she’s ready to return to Germany. 
  
 The sheriff’s department reminded hikers that winter weather comes much earlier in the mountains and it is extremely important to be well prepared with proper clothing, shelter, and food when backpacking. ||||| GLACIER PEAK, Wash. - A phone call from a concerned Snohomish County resident ended up saving the life of a German woman who was attempting to hike through the Cascades to the Canadian border without the proper gear as snow and cold hit the region on Monday. 
  
 Nancy Abel of Sultan originally met the German woman, Katharina Groene, about a week ago as she was hiking near Stevens Pass. Katharine told Nancy that she had started off on a solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail at the Mexican border in May and was determined to keep going to the Canadian border. 
  
 Nancy, who is an avid hiker, joined Katharina for the first couple miles of her trek from Stevens Pass and tried to talk her out of hiking so far north in the mountains so late in the year without the proper equipment and experience, but Katharina believed she was well prepared for the weather and kept heading north. 
  
 Nancy returned home to Sultan. But over the weekend, as snow and cold weather moved in to the mountains, Nancy became concerned and called 911 to report her concerns and see if rescuers could check on Katharina, Snohomish County sheriff's officials said. 
  
 The Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team launched SnoHawk 1 on Monday and were barely able to fly the helicopter due to the blowing snow and sleet. 
  
 Once in the area they began searching for Katharina and found footprints in the snow, then followed them until they located Katharina at the 5,000-foot level near Glacier Peak. 
  
 It took several attempts to find a suitable landing area and then several more attempts to get the helicopter safely on the ground. There were no level areas to set the helicopter down. 
  
 Chief pilot Quistorf finally was able to find a place where he could place one skid on the ground while pilot Espeland jumped from the helicopter and began stacking logs under the other skid to make a somewhat level platform to set the helicopter on. 
  
 Once they were on the ground they reached Katharina and found she was woefully unprepared for winter mountain weather. Her shelter had blown away, she had lost two sets of gloves, she was soaking wet and running low on food. She said she had attempted to call for help the day before, but had no cell service. 
  
 Finally, she became so desperate that she left messages on her phone apologizing to her friends and family for dying on the Pacific Crest Trail. 
  
 "Katharina did not need any encouragement to climb onboard SnoHawk 1 and fly off the mountain," the rescue team said in a Facebook post. "A huge thank you to Nancy .... who made the phone call that saved this young lady's life!" 
  
 The rescuers flew Katharina back to Taylors Landing. Nancy met her there and invited Katharina to stay with her until she is ready to fly back to Germany. 
  
 The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said Nancy's phone call undoubtedly saved Katharina's life. 
  
 "If Nancy had not taken action Katharina would have most likely died in the mountains," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. 
  
  
  
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Student:
Katharina Groene was near death—wet, dehydrated, showing signs of hypothermia, and eating a ration of one Pop-Tart per day. She was down to the last 200 miles of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail earlier this week when she pulled out her phone and recorded an apology for those she feared she’d never see again, per the Washington Post. The 34-year-old German hiker was soon after saved by a woman she'd met only briefly a week before. Aiming to reach the Canadian border, Groene had refused to turn around in Washington state's Cascade Range on Oct. 24 though local backpacker Nancy Abell advised her to do so. Snow was coming. "I'd been through a storm up in the same area and we couldn't go anywhere for three days," Abell said Wednesday. "I just kept thinking of her being up there alone" without snowshoes. Groene, who started at the Mexican border in May but was delayed by visa issues, thought she was prepared enough for the weather, per KOMO News. But back home in Sultan, Abell grew concerned amid heavy snowfall, to the point where she couldn't sleep. Abell called 911 on Monday, giving a location of where she had calculated the hiker might be found. It was "right on," says Sgt. John Adams of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. A helicopter search located footprints and eventually Groene, whose phone had no service. "I was crying. I was screaming for help," she said per Tribune Media. And "I knew who called [911]. But who does call for a stranger?" Abell, however, says Groene didn't feel like a stranger after the two hours they had hiked together. Adds Groene, who will stay with Abell until her trip home: "My faith in humanity is definitely restored." (The PCT is actually quite busy.)