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MOAB— Deputies have identified a father and daughter from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who died while hiking in Canyonlands National Park Friday as Albino Herrera Espinoza, 52, and Beatriz Herrera, 23.
San Juan County Dispatch received a text from the Herrera Friday afternoon, while she was hiking the strenuous Syncline Trail with her father, according to the National Park Service.
The two had gotten lost and run out of water, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.
A search and rescue helicopter crew responded, but the pair was found dead after hours of searching.
It has not been released where on the Syncline trail they were found, but the National Park Service describes it as "the most challenging trail in the Island in the Sky district," that requires "navigating steep switchbacks, climbing and scrambling through boulder fields where trail markers are few and far apart."
It is where most park rescues occur, according to the NPS website.
