It was a happy ending for three adventurers who found themselves stranded in a cabin in the Feather River Canyon area. Action News was there when the trio returned to civilization.

On Tuesday it took only four hours for rescue workers to find them. John Simola and Deneen Miland are from Butte County's ridge area, and Al Salguero is from San Jose. They were stranded for four days in a cabin in the snow near Inskip.

It all started Saturday morning when the three friends headed out four miles from Inskip on a snowmobile toward a cabin. The friends Simola, Miland and Salguero planned to stay there overnight. But on Sunday about two feet of snow fell and their day trip got kind of dicey. After the snowfall, Salguero and Miland took the snowmobile back toward Inskip. But the snow was too deep and the snowmobile got stuck halfway back.

The two decided to walk the two miles back to the cabin. But that wasn't easy as it sounded. It took them eight hours to hike those two miles back to safety.

Deneen Miland told Action News "my worst fear was that we weren't going to make it back to the cabin."

By Monday, Salguero's worried wife in San Jose contacted him on his cellphone found out what had happened and called for help which came in the form of six Butte County search and rescue workers.

We asked Deneen Miland what it was like to be back safe and sound. "Oh, wonderful and I thank the crew with search & rescue, that's really great."

A rescue member told me the three should not have gone out to the cabin in one snowmobile and that they should have been more familiar with the upcoming weather conditions in the area before heading out.