Kamas, Utah ? An 11-year-old boy who vanished from a Boy Scout camp was found alive and in good condition Tuesday after spending four days lost in the rugged Utah wilderness.

Brennan Hawkins waves as he is removed from an ambulance Tuesday at a hospital in Salt Lake City. Hawkins, 11, who vanished from a Boy Scout camp, was found alive and in good condition Tuesday after spending four days lost in the rugged Utah wilderness.

Sheriff Dave Edmunds said Brennan Hawkins was “a little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he was in very good health.”

After downing bottles of water and eating all the granola bars carried by a group of volunteer searchers, the boy asked to play a video game on one rescuer’s cell phone, the sheriff said.

The youngster from the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful was found just before noon near Lily Lake, about five miles from the camp in the Uinta Mountains where he was last seen Friday. He was reunited with his parents and their four other children and taken to a hospital.

The boy carried no food or water, and his family had said he did not have a good sense of direction.

It was not immediately clear how he survived or whether he tried to find his way back to camp. “He was in no mood to give us some details,” the sheriff said. “He just wanted to eat and see his Mom.”

The boy and his family rode in an ambulance together to a Salt Lake City hospital. “He laughed on the way here, just like he always has,” said his mother, Jody Hawkins.

“People say that the heavens are closed and God no longer answers prayers. We are here to unequivocally tell you that the heavens are not closed, prayers are answered and children come home,” she told reporters at Primary Children’s Medical Center.

Doctors planned to keep him at least overnight to run tests, said Dr. Ed Clark, the hospital’s medical director.