22-year-old on hike with friends falls 60 feet to her death, cops say. ‘Heart is broken’
A 22-year-old was hiking with friends in a popular river canyon in Oregon when she fell 60 feet to her death, deputies said.
Elisha Angelic Macias, of Hillsboro, was pronounced dead at about 4:35 p.m. May 19 in the Columbia River Gorge, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Macias and her friends were on the Oneonta Trail together, which is a popular day hike that takes visitors past waterfalls and has “steep creek-weathered basalt cliffs,” according to the U.S. Forest Service.
At one point, deputies said she separated from the group, went off trail, and fell 50 to 60 feet off a cliff west of the Horsetail Falls Trailhead.
Another hiker was performing CPR on Macias when deputies got to the scene, but medical responders pronounced her dead.
Her body has been turned over to the Multnomah County Medical Examiner.
“You were a literal angel. Even your middle name is ‘angelic,’” Marisa Waldo wrote on Facebook. “You were such a special soul on this planet!”
“My heart is broken and I’m devastated.... god took you to early,” Brittney Hernandez wrote.
The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is a “spectacular river canyon” that runs 80 miles long and is 4,000 feet deep, according to forest officials.
Visitors can hike, look for waterfalls, backpack, mountain bike and camp in the forested area.
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