SUBLETTE COUNTY — A female skier amid a multi-week trek across the Wind River Mountain Range became severely ill near Downs Mountain and needed to be rescued from an elevation
SUBLETTE COUNTY (WNE) — A female skier amid a multi-week trek across the Wind River Mountain Range became severely ill near Downs Mountain and needed to be rescued from an
After their pickup plunged about 40 yards down a hill off a remote road near Big Piney, Wyoming, a father cared for his hurt son for about eight hours until he could find his phone and call for help.
Pandemic Wilderness Explorers Are Straining Search and Rescue
Inexperienced adventurers have flooded remote areas like Wyoming’s Sublette County during the pandemic. When they call for help, the task is left to an overwhelmed network of volunteers.
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April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
PINEDALE, Wyo. Kenna Tanner and her team can list the cases from memory: There was the woman who got tired and did not feel like finishing her hike; the campers, in shorts during a blizzard; the base jumper, misjudging his leap from a treacherous granite cliff face; the ill-equipped snowmobiler, buried up to his neck in an avalanche.