- Elisha Angelic Macias, 22, tragically fell during a hiking trip with friends
- Emergency responders said she fell 50 to 60 feet from the popular Oregon trail
A young female hiker tragically fell 60 feet to her death on a popular trail in Oregon during an outing with her friends.
Elisha Angelic Macias, 22, of Hillsboro, was hiking near the Oreonta Trail on Sunday when the fatal fall took place.
Macias was on an excursion with friends in the so-called ‘Waterfall Corridor’ in the area west of Multnomah Falls when she became separated from the group.
Deputies were called – and when they arrived on the scene another hiker was performing CPR on Macias.
However, she was pronounced dead at the scene by Cascade Locks Fire & EMS personnel at around 4:35pm – shortly after emergency responders arrived.
Elisha Angelic Macias, 22, of Hillsboro was hiking near the Oreonta Trail on Sunday when the fatal fall took place
Pictured: Horsetail Falls ‘Waterfall Corridor’ in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Search and rescue crews determined that she fell 50 to 60 feet from a cliff west of the Horsetail Falls Trailhead.
‘No one in the group saw her fall,’ the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Search and rescue teams helped to recover the hiker’s body and volunteers ‘responded to provide trauma-informed resources and care for all effected,’ a news release said.
According to Macias’s social media, she worked as a teacher at Belmont Academy and originally hailed from the Bronx.
Just last month, the 22-year-old had been on vacation with her group of friends to Las Vegas to celebrate a birthday.
Friends of Macias (pictured) flooded to social media to share their heartbroken reactions. ‘No words are going to truly describe what’s going on in my head but Elisha you were an amazing person through and through,’ her friend said
Search and rescue crews determined that Marcias fell 50-60 feet from a cliff west of the Horsetail Falls Trailhead (pictured: the ‘Waterfall Corridor’)
Friends of Macias flooded to social media to share their heartbroken reactions.
‘No words are going to truly describe what’s going on in my head but Elisha you were an amazing person through and through,’ her close friend wrote on Instagram.
‘You helped me in one of my darkest and lowest moments and I’m so grateful I got the chance to love and be loved by you,’ he said – adding he can’t believe this is true.
‘You’ll always be in my mind and forever in my heart. I’m just glad our little angel isn’t alone in heaven anymore. Rest easy Elisha.’
‘Rest in peace Elisha Macias You were a literal angel,’ another friend Marisa Waldo wrote on Facebook. ‘Even your middle name is “angelic”. You were such a special soul on this planet.’
‘My heart is broken and I’m devastated…. god took you to early,’ Brittney Hernandez said in a post.
Marcias’s tragic death is the second fatality in the popular hiking area just this Spring, according to the Statesman Journal.
On March 15, a 61-year-old woman was found dead at the bottom of a cliff near Horsetail Falls Trailhead after she had also been hiking the Oneonta Trail.
