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A hiker in northern Washington’s North Cascades National Park was rescued a month after he went missing in July, authorities said Saturday, and according to one rescuer, it was just in time.

Robert Schock, 39, was last seen by other hikers in an area of the park on July 31 and did not have any overnight gear with him, the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement to CNN.

He was rescued and taken to a hospital on August 30, authorities say.

“When our crew found Robert, he was able to communicate to them that he had been immobile, stuck in that exact spot for approximately two weeks,” wrote Jeff Kish, executive director of the non-profit Pacific Northwest Trail Association, in a Facebook post about the rescue late Wednesday.

On August 3, park officials notified deputies of an abandoned vehicle at the Hannegan Pass trailhead. They also reported finding a dog they said belongs to Schock, 8 miles away on a trail near the Chilliwack River, according to the statement.

Deputies who responded to the area over the following few days checked the vehicle and found the windows rolled down and Schock’s wallet on the dashboard, the sheriff’s office said.

Park rangers searched the remote area several times by ground on August 7 and joined deputies in a helicopter search of the area, but found no clues leading to Schock’s whereabouts.

The US Border Patrol’s air search on August 16 of Chilliwack Basin and ground search of the area where the dog was found also yielded no clues, authorities said.

“On August 30, WCSO deputies were notified by National Parks Service rangers that Schock was located in the Chilliwack Basin, alive and well,” the sheriff’s office said in the statement.

Kish disagreed with the official statement of Schock’s condition when his Pacific Northwest Trail Association team found him, he wrote on Facebook.

“Robert was found alive, but not well,” Kish wrote. “It is the belief of those who came to be involved in the rescue that Robert may have only had another day left in him before the outcome of his discovery would have been much more tragic.”

The non-profit’s crew had been working on restoring a trail destroyed by fires in 2022 the day they found Schock, according to Kish. They were heading back to camp after a long day when they heard a “barely discernible” sound near the Chilliwack River as they crossed it, he said.

“It was not readily apparent that they had heard a person, but their intuition was to take the time to investigate, just in case,” Kish wrote.

The team heard Schock yelling for help, according to CNN affiliate KIRO.

The crew found Schock about a half a mile off the trail along the river’s bank, “laid out and exposed to the elements,” according to Kish, who added: “His situation was dire.”

The team provided critical aid to Schock for several hours before rescue teams arrived to take him to a hospital, according to Kish.

CNN has contacted the National Park Service for additional information.

Two unranked teams looking to prove they belong collide today when the Washington State Cougars face the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Week 2 of the 2024 college football season. This game kicks off at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET (9 p.m. CT) on Saturday, September 7 with a live broadcast on FOX, and streaming live on demand.

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When: Kickoff takes place at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET (9 p.m. CT) on Saturday, September 7.

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I am sitting in my office on August 28 remembering the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that took place on this date in 1963.

I have so many wonderful memories of that day. I see the faces of so many people of every race, ethnicity, gender and religion. I’ve been part of hundreds of marches in my lifetime, but the March on Washington is still that march, that event, that experience that continues to remind me of what America can be if we all work together.

There are some things about that march which are not well-known. First, I was a skinny, handsome teenager fresh out of high school when I attended the march. I helped to organize a group from my hometown of Plaquemine, La., and surrounding areas. We had more than four charter buses headed from the bayous of Louisiana to the capital.

We were happy and yet hesitant at the same time. Interstate travel with integrated buses was against the law in the South. We knew many of us would not make it to the march because of being arrested by state police in Louisiana, Mississippi or Georgia. We had already raised bail money before we left, and we needed it!

One of the speakers to be featured that day, Dr. James Farmer, who was head of the Congress of Racial Equality, was not able to speak at the march because he was in jail in my hometown. He was there with us as we protested the stifling voting laws in our parish. The protests led to my home church being tear-gassed by state troopers while we were having a meeting. They busted through the doors and windows riding horses throughout the sanctuary, beating us with cattle prods and billy clubs. The local police arrested Farmer and would not release him.

Another interesting item is that one of the biggest supporters of the march was Charlton Heston. He was close friends of Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Sammy Davis Jr. He was standing up front with most of the Hollywood celebrities like Robert Culp and Burt Lancaster. The same man who was the lead in the movie The Ten Commandments and a staunch financial supporter of civil rights later in life became the head of the National Rifle Association.

Also, we seem to forget this was not the first March on Washington. In May 1957, a march called Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom had more than 25,000 demonstrators. The march was to encourage the federal government to continue working to implement Brown vs. Board of Education. The figurehead of the 1957 and 1963 marches was A. Philip Randolph, a larger-than-life luminary of the Civil Rights Movement.

I still laugh when I think about how the “I Have a Dream” speech came about. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had already started on a different speech when singer Mahalia Jackson, who was sitting in the background and not known for whispering, shouted, “Martin, tell them about your dream! Tell them about your dream, Martin!”

I guess she must have shouted it one too many times, because King closed his binder and delivered one of the greatest speeches of all time.

You see, Jackson had heard the speech before. Two months before the March on Washington, King stood before a large crowd in Detroit and delivered a sermon titled, “Making the American Dream a reality.” Jackson was present for that speech and shouted for Martin to deliver it again. When King closed his binder that day in Washington, D.C., and looked across the vast audience, Rev. C.T. Vivian could be heard shouting, “We’re about to go to church!”

America, the dream is still alive. I have seen great changes in our country. Do we still have more to do? Yes! But we have come a mighty, mighty long way.

So, as my mentor and one of the greatest 20th-century philosophers said, and I say with him, “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.”

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