UPDATED: The woman and her daughter have been found safely.
Search crews are looking for a woman and her baby missing outside of Powell River.
Police say 31-year-old Heather Thompson and her 20-month-old daughter, Erica, went mushroom picking yesterday morning in the back country.
Her boyfriend reported the pair missing last evening.
Search and rescue crews were dispatched, but had to be called off last night and resumed this morning.
RCMP Constable Chris Bakker says her van was later located off a forest service road.
“In the van, we found her cell phone and purse tucked away as if they had put them away to go into the bush to do the mushroom picking. There’s no evidence of anything other than that right now.”
A police dog and RCMP helicopter have also been called in.
Bakker says Thompson is an experienced mushroom picker, and it does not appear she intended to stay overnight.
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