PARK CO. Mont. - Search and rescue helped eight snowmobilers who found themselves stuck near the Granite Lake area.
The Park County Sheriffâs Office Dispatch Center received a report Wednesday, Feb. 24 around 11:00 pm of eight snowmobilers from Minnesota and Wisconsin that left the Cooke City area that morning heading into the Beartooth Mountains and had not returned.
Acquaintances of the snowmobilers received a text message from one of them earlier in the day indicating they were in the Maryott Lake area of the Beartooth Wilderness.
Due to not knowing the exact location and how late it was in the day, crews decided not to deploy until daylight.
Written by Andrew-Rossi on February 26, 2021
It was déjà vu for Park County Search and Rescue, as helicopters and snowmobile volunteers were needed in a rescue operation that should never have happened.
The call came into the Park County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24. Eight snowmobilers, a group of people from Minnesota and Wisconsin, left Cooke City, Montana for an excursion into the Beartooth Mountains and had yet to return.
Park County Search and Rescue immediately mobilized, enlisting the assistance of the Cody Country Snowmobile Association. There was only one problem: they didn’t know where to go.