FOXNews.com: LOST FOR DAYS:'Disoriented' Teen Hiker Found, Friend Still Missing

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LOST FOR DAYS:'Disoriented' Teen Hiker Found, Friend Still Missing Apr 4th 2013, 09:22 This image provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows hikers Nicholas Cendoya and Kyndall Jack who have been missing since the weekend.AP One of two hikers missing in Southern California's Cleveland National Forest was found alive Wednesday night, but his female companion remained missing, authorities said. Nicholas Cendoya, 19, was transported to a trauma center after he was found by another hiker about a mile from where he and 18-year-old Kyndall Jack had parked their vehicle, MyFox5SanDiego.com reported. Orange County sheriff's Lt. Jason Park said the other hiker located Cendoya at about 8 p.m., then told a crew of firefighters where to find him. Cendoya was found severely dehydrated and was talking to paramedics but struggled to answer questions about what had happened and where Jack might be. "He was extremely confused and disoriented," Park said. Cendoya was flown to a hospital 20 miles away in Mission Viejo. Television footage showed him walking with help from paramedics. The search for Jack would continue into the night, Park said. He had no further information on where she might be or what information Cendoya was able to give. The hiker who came across Cendoya went for help and found the firefighters, a training crew not involved in the search that just happened to be nearby, Park said. They found Cendoya in thick brush about a half-mile south of where much of the search had focused. The pair had not been heard from since their cellphone died Sunday night. Several dozen searchers with help from three helicopters had been combing the rugged hills of Trabuco Canyon in the national forest. They were searching the area because a 911 call from the hikers' cellphone was traced to a nearby cell tower, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. John Muir. Muir said earlier that Cendoya and Jack's "probability for survival is good" with mild weather both day and night. KTLA.com reported that crews found a pair of jeans and a bandana while combing the trail, but it was later determined they didn't belong to the missing hikers. A Facebook page called the Costa Mesa Search Party has been created to allow the public to coordinate rides to the trail, the station reported. The two were believed to have gone off trail near Holy Jim Trail, a tree-lined dirt path along a creek that leads to a waterfall and is popular with day hikers. In the 911 call, they said they were about a mile from Jack's car, which was parked at a trailhead, but rescuers expanded the search when they weren't found nearby. Jack's mother drew a message on the car's dusty windshield that read: "Kyndall - we r looking wont stop love you mom," and signed it with a heart. "When you're disoriented because you're out of breath and tired and you think you're one mile away, you could be potentially three or four miles away," Muir said Wednesday afternoon. "There's a lot of ground to cover." It was unclear whether the lost hikers carried water and Jack's father, Russ Jack, said he worried that after three days the pair might be dehydrated. The area is in a section of the national forest in the Santa Ana Mountains, which lie along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles. The trail ranges in elevation from about 2,000 feet to about 4,000 feet. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Click here for more from Fox5SanDiego.com. Click here for more from MyFoxLA.com. Click here for more from KTLA.com.

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