An overnight search early Saturday morning found a missing hunter in Sitka’s Granite Creek area.
Byron Kashevarof, 31, of Sitka, was hunting and became lost on Friday night, Alaska State Troopers reported. Sitka Mountain Rescue, Alaska Wildlife Troopers and the Sitka Police Department responded to the case.
Kashevarof was found about 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning and taken to a local hospital as a precaution, Troopers said in a dispatch released Tuesday morning.