GRANITE FALLS, Wash. --All three of the teens that were stranded on Three Fingers Mountain has made it down the mountain safely.

Sixteen-year-old Steve Bett was reunited with his family around 1:30 p.m., and 17-year-old Van McKeon was safely rescued by a helicopter crew just after 6:30 p.m. The third teen, 17-year-old Shayne Helm, was also flown out just minutes later.

McKeon and Helm appeared to be OK; they were able to walk off the helicopter on his own.

A sobbing girlfriend and two mothers wrapped their arms around the teens. Autumn Novak, Helm's girlfriend, clung to Helm, reluctant to let him go.

"(I thought) I was going to lose my favorite person in the world," she said.

"(We were) cold, wet, not prepared at all," Helm said. "We were out in the wind and snow all night with little to no shelter. It was bad."

"We stayed the night on the peak of the mountain on a rock face," McKeon said.

"We were definitely freaking out. He (McKeon) was shaking, hypothermia had started to set in on him," Helm said.

Sheriff spokesman Rebecca Hover said the three boys from the Marysville-Arlington area called 911 from a cell phone Tuesday night and said they had run into unexpected weather, were soaking wet, very cold, and became stranded near the summit of the mountain.

"Two of the boys are boy scouts, one of them's been up there before. They've all hiked before, but weather is just really tough," said Mike McKeon, Van's father.

Rescuers said they detected some slurred speech and they were concerned because it is a sign of hypothermia.

"Like that, the weather changes up here in the mountains and that can be a life-threatening situation, which is what has happened here," said Sgt. Danny Wickstrom with Snohomish County Search and Rescue.

The hikers managed to find a makeshift shelter nearby and spent the night in the cold. Rescue crews gathered late Tuesday and headed up the mountain through the night to reach the hikers, reaching them Wednesday morning -- some 11 hours after the call for help came in.

"They stayed together, they didn't separate which meant we would have had different locations to send teams to," Hover said. "And that would have made it a lot more difficult."

They found all three hikers were suffering from mild hypothermia. The 16-year-old boy was well enough to make the nearly 7 mile hike down the mountain with some rescuers Monday morning. But the other two were still at the 6,200-foot level and not well enough to hike that far. One of those teens has an aggravated back injury and can barely walk.

Weather conditions were still poor for much of Wednesday, with rain, snow and fog limiting visibility to 200 feet -- too dangerous for helicopters to safely lift them off the mountain. But crews were able to fly after 6 p.m. with improved visibility.