La Plata County Search and Rescue ran a robust fundraising campaign ahead of Tuesday’s Colorado Gives and raked in $14,517 as a result.
The day’s haul fell short of an ambitious $50,000 goal. Still, l.
It took eight hours, 30 rescue workers and every inch of a 213-foot-long rope to pull a man to safety who plunged 212 feet off the side of a cliff while riding an all-terrain vehicle in the La Plata M.
It was one of the first rafts to come down during last weekend’s Animas River Days parade. The raft flipped at Santa Rita hole, sending Ted Holteen overboard minutes before his group planned to pull o.
After several weeks of quiet thanks to an unseasonably stable snowpack, three men were killed in two avalanches on Feb. 25.
The avalanches – each very different from the other – sent forecasters with .
After a two-year hiatus, the La Plata County Search and Rescue Pancake Breakfast was back Sunday with a whopping turnout of over 600 people.
The Snowdown tradition that began in 1985 was put on hold d.