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Dave Golder

California hiker calls for rescue when legs go numb after mysterious bite

Inyo County Search and Rescue attend to the bitten hiker.

A hiker in California was forced to make a desperate phone call to search and rescue services when he legs went numb following a mysterious bite by an unknown critter – possibly a spider.

In a Facebook post, Inyo County Search and Rescue detailed how the unnamed woman had been hiking northbound on the John Muir Trail on the Sierra Nevada, but had taken a detour onto Taboose Pass “when she encountered too much snow for her comfort level on Mather Pass.”

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