A man, who set out on Sunday on a hike and lost in the San Gabriel Mountains, was found by the rescue team two days later.

Nathan Freund, 27, from Camarillo, a hiker with experience, was able to give his GPS coordinates to the searchers, according to Arden Wiltshire, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Freund said: "This was the first time I (had been) lost. My first thought was to get back to my family."

On Sunday he decided to go on a hike in the Mount Baldy area, so as he was planning to stay overnight and to return on Monday, he prepared well and dressed warmly.

He said: "Sunday was OK. Then on Monday, the clouds turned really bad. It was windy. The snow started coming in on the day I wanted to leave."

Freund was lost when dense fog surrounded him.

He succeeded in sending a text message from his cell phone to his family saying that he was lost. The family alerted authorities.

Freund, who is a student at Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, had with him the latest technology in PLB and GPS which helped at his rescue.

The signal from the GPS was detected by an Air Force satellite thus locating him near Big Horn Peak, north of Cucamonga Peak, according to Jodi Miller, a San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman.

Freund stayed in his tent and sleeping bag in order to keep warm.

Two teams from San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties were working on Monday to track him down. On Tuesday morning they found the exact coordinates and five hours later found him.

According to the Sheriff's Department, he wasn’t injured and even though he spent two nights at negative temperatures at 9,000 feet, he didn’t need medical attention.

The search was called off a few times due to the dense fog, the Associated Press reports.

Wiltshire said: "We were able to use the helicopter only intermittently."

According to him, the rescue couldn’t be done with the helicopter due to the icy conditions and the fog, so the ground rescue team had to hike for hours to find the him.

After he was found Freund was taken down the mountain where his mother and father greeted him.