Hiker Helps Lost and Injured Dog Down Wyoming Mountain Last month, hiker Tia Vargas summited Table Rock in the Grand Tetons, Wyoming at 11,106 feet and on the way down, came across a limping English Springer Spaniel, clearly injured and lost. Vargas saw the dog with two other hikers headed towards the summit, looking for his owner. Since the other hikers wanted to summit, Vargas decided to take “Boomer” […] Climbing Kristen Strom | September 17, 2018 0 Comments
Female Hiker Impaled By Hunter’s Arrow On Alaskan Trail Alaska State Troopers were called to the rescue of a 59-year-old Anchorage, AK woman who was impaled in the knee by an arrow that had been left on a Cooper Landing Trail Thursday afternoon. Janis Bronson was five miles from the trailhead when she walked into the tip-up broadhead arrow, which was embedded in the ground but hidden in tall […] Steven Agar | September 13, 2018 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Teams Successfully Find Man who Spent a Night in the Lake Tahoe, CA Backcountry A man was reunited with his family after spending a night in the Lake Tahoe backcountry, the second successful search and rescue mission this weekend, reports the Tahoe Daily Tribune. The first concerned a missing hiker on the Tahoe Rim Trail. According to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Hasty Team, the overdue hiker was located Saturday afternoon with help from […] Steven Agar | September 10, 2018 0 Comments
Strangers Carry Injured Hiker 3-Miles Down 14er Grays Peak, Colorado A group of 9 Coloradan strangers rescued a woman from the 14er Grays Peak after she tore her ACL and meniscus and knew that there was no way that she could get down on her own. “I heard that snap, and I mean it is a snap you’ll never forget. I just went down. I collapsed,” she said. Bev Wedelstedt was […] Steven Agar | September 5, 2018 0 Comments
Park Rangers Searching Longs Peak, CO for Lone Hiker who Failed to Return Sunday Park rangers are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who went hiking in the Longs Peak and Mount Meeker area of Colorado over the weekend and hadn’t returned as planned on Sunday. A family member of Jens “Jay” Yambert, of Urbana, Illinois, notified park rangers on Tuesday that Yambert was overdue, and rangers found his rental car at the Longs Peak […] Climbing CragBrains | August 30, 2018 0 Comments
Inyo Search and Rescue Recover Dead Hiker from Middle Palisades Glacier, CA On Saturday, August 18, 2018, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office was notified by Interagency Dispatch Center in Bishop of a deceased male subject on the northeast face of Middle Palisades Peak, California. The third hand reporting party described the area as the “Red Rock Route” at approximately 12,900”. On Sunday, August 19 two Inyo County Search and Rescue volunteers began […] Climbing CragBrains | August 23, 2018 0 Comments
Lone Hiker Dies in the Heat After a Fall in Death Valley, California A lone hiker died from a fall while hiking on a hot day in Death Valley National Park, California according to a press release from the National Park Service. National Park Service (NPS) rangers received a call on Monday, July 16 from the hiker’s fiancée. She reported that Peter Rhoad, a 57-year-old man from Huntington Beach, California, was overdue in […] SnowBrains | July 21, 2018 0 Comments
Climber with Serious Lower Leg Injury Had to be Airlifted from Snowmass Mountain, Aspen A climber had to be rescued from Snowmass Peak on Tuesday after suffering a severe lower leg injury, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. Pitkin County dispatch received a call at around 2:30 pm from a climber who was injured roughly 1,500 feet above Snowmass Lake, according to a press release. The climber, later identified as 31-year-old Alexander Pancoe of […] Climbing CragBrains | July 21, 2018 0 Comments
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