The Ouray Mountain Rescue Team responded to two backcountry accidents recently that required technical rope rescue.
On Feb. 12, rescuers responded to a man who had fallen 20 feet from a cliff on Log H.
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Truck plunges off cliff on Red Mountain Pass
OURAY COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) Early Thursday, morning a driver plunged over a cliff on Red Mountain Pass. He spent hours laying in a river being rescued by a CDOT employee.
According to the Ouray County Sheriff s Office, a man driving a truck veered off the road, falling hundreds of feet below into a river. He spent hours screaming for help. Eventually, a local CDOT driver found him.
Dack Klein was driving when he noticed the debris from the accident and heard the driver crying out for help.
Ouray County Sheriff s Office