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Highway Patrol Rescues Woman "Hiking While Blind" in Santa Rosa

The hiker's prescription sunglasses didn't do much good when the sun went down.

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David Presad

California Highway Patrol successfully rescued a hiker last weekend when she was unexpectedly stranded after the sun set in Santa Rosa’s Trione-Annadel State Park. The problem: The woman only had her prescription sunglasses on hand, and became essentially blind after dark. Rescuers used a helicopter, night vision goggles, and a thermal-imaging camera to find her.

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