BARTLETT — Members of state Fish and Game and Mountain Rescue Services spent Monday in the woods searching for three lost hikers from New York City. Following a more than six-hour search, the three hikers were found, cold and wet but uninjured in the in near the Moat Mountain and Red Ridge Trail in Bartlett.

According to a release issued Tuesday afternoon by Fish and Game Lt. Bradley Morse, Ryan Elkassem, 21, from New York City, was hiking with his 18-year-old brother and 16-year-old stepbrother on Monday, planning to venture out on the the Moat Mountain Trail and Red Ridge Trail and concluding at Diana’s Bath on West Side Road.

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