UPDATE:  11/29/14 –  Hooton has been located by the Sheriff’s Dept.  A friend of Hooton’s said that Hooton had called from a pay phone at a convenience story on Mission Gorge Road in Santee.  Based on the info, deputies searched and found Hooton walking near Lake Arrowhead Drive and Lake Murray Blvd around 8;40 a.m.

Hooton said when he got separated from his friend he returned to the car and then decided to walk to the trolley station and go home.  He left a message in the dirt next to his friends car and started walking, but he became lost.  When he figured out where he was he continued walking home. 

Previous story:  Jerry Lee Hooton went missing on Friday around 3 p.m. after he did not return from hiking on El Capitan Mountain in Lakeside in San Diego County.  Hooton was wearing a gray t-shirt, blue jeans, gray shoes and carrying a yellow backpack.  Please call the police if you spot him.