Yosemite Search for Massachusetts Woman Called Off

Rescuers gave up their search Sunday for a Massachusetts woman who disappeared a week earlier while hiking here with her boyfriend.

Jeanne Hesselschwerdt of Arlington, Mass., was last seen about noon on July 9 when she and her boyfriend, Mike Monahan of Boston, split up to take separate trails near the Glacier Point area--a well-known overlook with a view of the valley.

The 37-year-old social worker failed to show up at their appointed meeting place an hour later.

Ground searchers, rescue dogs and helicopters have searched a 40-square-mile area since then but have found no clues, park spokeswoman Kris Fister said. They found only an earring and some loose change, but nothing to indicate the items belonged to Hesselschwerdt.

Rescuers made further checks Sunday near where Hesselschwerdt was last seen. But the area is fairly heavily used, so rangers will pass through periodically on a routine basis, Fister said.