The search party for a missing 21-year-old Marine grew to about 100 people today, who scoured the western edge of Eldorado Canyon State Park near Boulder.
Lance Hering hasn’t been seen since early Wednesday, when his friend Steve Powers left him about a mile and a half from the Eldorado Canyon trailhead to get help.
The pair had been hiking and climbing boulders Tuesday. About 10 p.m., when they were at the top of a drainage called the North Draw and heading down, Hering fell about 15 feet and landed on his head.
Searchers, some with dogs, on horseback or riding all-terrain vehicles, are looking in a rugged area the size of more than 600 football fields.
Hering is about 6-feet tall and 180 pounds. He has short-cropped blond hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information on his disappearance is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 303 441-4444.
