A cellphone was instrumental in helping searchers find a hunter who went missing in the woods in central Newfoundland Wednesday evening.

The RCMP said they received a call from a man who said he was somewhere in the woods north of the Trans-Canada Highway, near Bishop's Falls.

Police say the man had been wandering around for several hours, unable to find out his way out of the woods, before calling for help on his cellphone.

Members of the Exploits Search and Rescue team began a ground search, but a Cormorant helicopter was called in from the search and rescue base in Gander because weather conditions were deteriorating.

The hunter, a 43-year-old man from Bishop's Falls, was found a few hours after calling for assistance. Police say he was treated for mild hypothermia.

Police say the incident is a good reminder of the benefit of people taking a cellphone with them when they go into the woods.