A traveling nurse practitioner who went missing on a hiking trail in Northern California over a week ago has prompted a massive search effort.
Ann Herford, a 66-year-old Michigan resident, was reported missing Wednesday on the Arnold Rim Trail in Arnold after she never showed up for work at Adventist Health in Sonora, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office said.
Herford was staying alone at the Best Western in Sonora and was last heard from on Nov. 11, when she had “expressed interest in hiking” during a breakfast with a friend, according to authorities.
“She wanted to take advantage of hiking and going to see the mountains up here,” Ann Wettengel, who met Herford a few weeks prior to her disappearance, told KCRA-TV.
COLORADO HIKER MISSING FOR MONTHS FOUND DEAD, HIS DOG STILL ALIVE BY HIS SIDE
A resident reported seeing Herford near a trailhead where her car was found on Wednesday.
Family members told authorities that she …