Game wardens rescued two Gorham boys after they became lost in a remote part of northern Maine earlier this week.

According to a press release, Mark Nadeau, 46, of Gorham, was camping near Deboullie Lake on July 23 with his son, Nathaniel Nadeau, 16, and a friend, Garrick Brown, 15, also from Gorham. The two young men hiked to the Deboullie Mountain Fire Tower at about 1:30 p.m. A storm came in and the two headed down the mountain on the wrong trail ending up about 3.1 miles further west in the wrong direction.

This put them on the west end of Gardner Pond, a very remote location, wardens said. At about 8:15 p.m., three game wardens responded to the call and headed to Deboullie Township for the search. At about 1 a.m. voice contact was made, but it was on the other side of the lake. After a 21?2-hour hike over Gardner Mountain and down to the lake the two young men were found at about 3:30 a.m. in cool, but good, condition.

Game Warden Pilot Jeff Spencer was called in at dawn and used his plane to taxi the party out of the rugged country across Gardner and Deboullie Lake. Red River Sporting Camps owner Jen Brophy spent the entire night in the woods assisting wardens with her knowledge of the trails and was a huge reason the search was successful.