Search continues Tuesday for lost 19-year-old hiker in White Mountains - WMUR Manchester

The hunt is continuing Tuesday successful Franconia Notch for a missing hiker from Massachusetts.Emily Sotelo, 19, from Westford, was dropped disconnected for a hike Sunday greeting astatine Lafayette Place campground by her parent and has not been seen since. She had intended to hike Mount Lafayette, Mount Haystack and Mount Flume.Sotelo, who turns 20 connected Wednesday, is described arsenic 5 feet, 3 inches gangly and 115 pounds. New Hampshire Fish and Game officials said she was past seen wearing a brownish jacket, low-cut hiking sneakers and workout pants. Officials said she she was besides wearing agelong johns. Sotelo's parents told News 9 that Sotelo is an experienced hiker but does not person overmuch wintertime hiking experience. She was portion of a White Mountains hiking Facebook radical and had, successful the past, asked different members to articulation her connected hikes. Officials said determination was nary denotation she planned to conscionable anyone for Sunday's hike. Sotelo and her parent had been staying a edifice for the week, and she had respective hikes planned done Thanksgiving, officials said.Search crews connected the crushed and successful the aerial crisscrossed the country passim the time Monday and resumed searching Tuesday. New England K-9 Search and Rescue besides helped retired Tuesday morning. "Our dogs are aerial scent dogs, truthful they are looking for generic quality scent," said Donna Larson, of New England K-9 Search and Rescue. "They bash cognize the quality betwixt if determination was a huntsman oregon hiker retired there. They tin archer the quality retired determination looking for that idiosyncratic that's retired of place."Ground crews were equipped with GPS trackers that let Fish and Game officers to show which parts of the trails person been searched.Officials said anyone who has accusation is asked to telephone New Hampshire Fish and Game astatine 603-271-3361.--