Search Continues for Woman missing in Smoky Mountains

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK -- News outlets have been reporting on a hiker who went missing six days ago in the Smoky Mountains, North Carolina.

Reported in today's National Parks Traveler by Kurt Repanshek

In North Carolina and Tennessee, searchers still had no clues to the whereabouts of Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements, 53, of Ohio, who was hiking with her daughter in the Clingmans Dome area last Tuesday when she went missing.

Searchers continued to work on the belief that Clements was still in the park and had not left it or been kidnapped.

"We are presuming she is in the park, there is no compelling reason to believe otherwise at this point," Great Smoky Mountains spokeswoman Julena Campbell said Sunday afternoon. "But again, while the extensive search is taking place in the park, our investigators still work 'other angles,' if you will, as needed, on the chance that she is not. Again, no reason to presume she is NOT in the park, but as a matter of protocol, we always look at other possibilities."

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  Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements