SALT LAKE CITY — Search and rescue teams were looking for a 14-year-old girl, Maya Suisse, who went missing on Thursday in the Uinta Mountains. On Friday afternoon, her family updated with the best-case-scenario news: she’d been found.

Cpt. John Crowley with the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that she was being reunited with family Friday afternoon.

Crowley said Maya went missing in the Painters Basin area near Kidney Lakes. The sheriff’s office got a call reporting her missing just after 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Crowley said Maya was with a group of about seven family members who had all been hiking for about a day and a half. Maya went away from the group to use the bathroom, and didn’t come back.

According to Maya’s sister, Brooklyn Suisse, the family has experience backpack

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