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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - Page updated at 10:19 PM

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Three hikers rescued from Snohomish County peak

All three teens who had been stranded on Three Fingers Mountain were rescued Wednesday.

By The Associated Press

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GRANITE FALLS — A Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman says all three teens who found themselves stranded by bad weather on a Snohomish County peak are safely off Three Fingers Mountain.

Lt. Kathi Lang says that after one teen walked out Wednesday, the weather cleared sufficiently for a rescue helicopter to pluck the other two teens off the mountain in separate trips Wednesday evening. One of those two had hiked partway down with rescuers. Lang says the third teen was suffering from back pain from a prior injury.

Lang said the three boys were "about 17." They are from the Marysville-Arlington area.

They called for help by cellphone Tuesday night after they encountered fog, snow, rain and cold on the 6,800-foot mountain.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover says rescuers reached the teens Wednesday morning and started warming them with portable heaters in tents.

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