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Search continues for N.Y. woman who went hiking after father's body on Mount Katahdin in Maine
'No one has had a brother like mine,' Tim's brother Joe Keiderling
'He left us far too soon,' he said. 'My heart is broken for his wife and children.'
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Park rangers began searching for the father and daughter Monday morning after discovering that their vehicle was still parked in the day-use parking lot, officials said.
The body of Tim Keiderling was located on the Tableland, near the summit of Katahdin, at
WMTW-TV reported that Esther Keiderling wrote about the hike with her father on Substack on Saturday.
'I'm a little nervous after everything I've read about the Abol trail but I'm going to do it if weather permits! If you don't see me back on Substack notes again, that's where I am,' she wrote.
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Baxter State Park Director Kevin Adam said the weather at Mount Katahdin on Sunday was cloudy with rain, sleet, and west winds reaching 30 to 40 miles per hour. Similar conditions were reported on Monday, he said.
'I have even seen some pictures with snow,' Adam said in an email to the Globe. 'Temperatures would have been in mid 30's, wind chill about 19. Monday temperatures were up into the 40's.'
Baxter State Park Rangers expanded their search Tuesday morning with the assistance of more than 30 game wardens, including the Maine Warden Service Search and Rescue team and its K-9 team. The Maine Forest Service was also searching the area with three helicopters, along with a Blackhawk and a Lakota Helicopter outfitted with an infrared thermal imaging device from the Maine Army National Guard, officials said.
Baxter State Park officials closed the Hunt and Abol Trails on Katahdin and asked anyone who has any information that could help their search efforts to contact Maine State Police in Houlton at 207-532-5400.
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