LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) – Two teenage hikers from Massachusetts got lost in the White Mountains on Saturday, but found their way out just at nightfall.

New Hampshire Fish and Game Sgt. Todd Bogardus said the two 15-year-old boys were hiking with a group on the Zealand Falls Trail in Bethlehem when they decided to separate from their companions and follow a brook to the trailhead.

Christopher Collins, of Bolton, Mass., and Alexander Nordeen, of Lunenburg, Mass., followed the wrong brook and hiked 10 miles into the Pemigewasset Wilderness area of the White Mountain National Forest, Bogardus said.

Fortunately, they found another trail and ran into some other hikers who gave them a map and headlamps. Eventually, they made their way to Lincoln.

Bogardus said the two left their group at 1:30 p.m. and turned up at the Lincoln Police station at 8:30 p.m. Meanwhile, searchers were looking for them.

Bogardus said the pair lacked proper gear and supplies for the hike and never should have left their group or the trail.

“They were unprepared. They had nothing but the clothes on their backs,” he said.