Six hikers, including five juveniles, visiting Colorado from Texas were rescued last week from a Pueblo County mountain after a nearly 25-hour search “in steep and heavily wooded terrain,” according to the sheriff’s office.
The Texas group began a hike Friday morning on Greenhorn Mountain near Graneros Creek, southwest of Rye, according to a news release from the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office.
They veered off their designated trail on the mountain, becoming lost and disoriented in the dense vegetation, the news release stated.
The hikers called the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office Communication Center at about 7:30 p.m. Friday to report they were lost and a volunteer search and rescue team immediately headed for the mountain, sheriff’s officials said in the release.
The volunteer team worked through the night with “steep terrain, heavy rain and limited visibility” that left one of the searchers injured, sheriff’s officials said.
Two more search and rescue teams — one from Pueblo County and one from Custer County — joined the operation Saturday morning. A Flight for Life helicopter searching overhead found the lost hikers but was unable to rescue them because of the rugged terrain, sheriff’s officials said.
Pueblo sheriff’s officials worked with the Colorado Department of Public Safety and the Colorado National Guard to deploy a second helicopter capable of rescuing people from the air without landing, according to the news release. That helicopter picked up the injured search and rescue member, who was then taken to the hospital by ambulance.
The on-foot search and rescue teams found four of the lost hikers at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, sheriff’s officials said. The other two, who had wandered off to try and find the trail, were found at 4:45 p.m.
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The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office issued the following reminders to hikers to be prepared before heading into the mountains:
Never hike alone, Share your hiking plans with someone you know before you go, Bring plenty of food and water, Carry a fully charged cell phone and conserve battery life, Pack emergency supplies, including a flashlight, fire starter and emergency blanket, Stay on marked and designated trails, And, if you become lost, call for help and stay in place.Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.
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