Sooke search for missing hiker suspended a second time

Renewed efforts to find a hiker who went missing in December have been suspended after two days of scouring the wilderness near Charters River in Sooke failed to turn up anything.

On the weekend, about 80 searchers from 11 search and rescue teams participated in the search for Melissa McDevitt, which was renewed after recently discovered data from McDevitt’s smartwatch narrowed the search area. McDevitt, 38, was last seen on surveillance video on Dec. 9 in the Charters Creek fish hatchery parking lot on Sooke River Road, just a few kilometres away from the Sooke Potholes.Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue redeployed on Saturday in what they said was a “concentrated and refined area of interest” but failed to find anything.

A powerful windstorm hit Vancouver Island the night McDevitt went missing . She had been due to fly to North Carolina the day after her hike to visit family.The December search of the Sea to Sea Regional Park was led by Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue and included up to 170 volunteers and 17 different search agencies combing over sometimes difficult terrain in rain and snow.

Searchers poured in a combined total of 5,000 hours over nine days in what would become one of the largest searches on the Island.Sooke RCMP have said that they have maintained an active missing-person investigation and have stayed in close contact with McDevitt’s family.mjlo@timescolonist.com

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