The body of a hiker who went missing last week in Placer County was found Monday in the North Fork of the American River, authorities said. The search for the hiker identified in media reports as 40-year-old Eryn VanAcker started shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office. VanAcker was last seen around 2:30 p.m. that day walking her dog on Codfish Falls Trail outside of Colfax, authorities said.
Higher up in the Sierra Nevada, on the Rubicon River, rain and snowmelt pounded against the Hell Hole Dam. But on the morning of Dec. 23, 1964, the partially built dam burst, releasing a "hurtling wall" of water downstream toward Auburn, where a surge of frothing, fast-moving water took out the Georgetown Bridge on Highway 49, near the confluence of the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River.
