Two Portland women apparently fell to their deaths off a Pacific Crest Trail cliff on Mount Hood, officials said Monday.

The bodies of Emma Place and Emily Lang, both 19, were found Saturday about 6 miles northwest of Timberline Lodge. Their bodies were on rocks at the base of a waterfall, authorities said.

“It looked like a freak accident,” said Steve Rollins, rescue leader of Portland Mountain Rescue, “a really sad freak accident.”

The women had set up camp at the top of the waterfall, with a tent and backpacks, Rollins said. It appeared that they lost their footing on the slippery rocks and fell, said Rollins and Clackamas County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian Jensen.

The sheriff’s office hasn’t been able to find anyone who saw the women fall, Jensen said.

Passing hikers called 911 early Saturday evening to report seeing the bodies, Jensen said. The women apparently fell about 150 feet.

A team of rescuers reached them about 11:50 p.m. Saturday and confirmed they were dead, Jensen said.

A second group of emergency workers hiked in about 6:45 a.m. Sunday. It took them about an hour and a half to hike to the location, Rollins said.

“We started at Timberline, went west on the Round-the-Mountain trail to Zigzag Canyon and then went down and back,” he said.

He said the 6-mile route is a difficult hike, with plenty of switchbacks.

“There were a lot of twists and turns going down into and getting out of Zigzag Canyon,” Rollins said.

The crew arrived at the scene about 8:45 a.m. Clackamas County officials recovered two cellphones — one of them in the water — but have been unable to retrieve any information from them.

The crew carried the bodies out on separate litters. They arrived back at Timberline Lodge about noon Sunday.

Jensen said officials have no idea when the women fell. The trail is fairly popular, Rollins said.

Both teenagers went to St. Mary’s Academy in Portland.

Jensen asks anyone who has information — or was around the trail between Timberline Lodge and Paradise Park before early Saturday evening — to call the agency’s tip line, 503-723-4949, or fill out an online form. Tipsters should reference case No. 17-21562.