Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, along with Garfield County Search and Rescue, coordinated its rescue efforts with the Routt County Sheriff’s Office and its search and rescue team to begin at dawn. Garfield County Search and Rescue sent out an alert page shortly after midnight for available members to meet at the operations barn in Rifle at 5 a.m.Ĭell service in the area is very limited, however they were able to receive a ping from one cell phone to assist in finding approximate location coordinates of the hikers. Two other hikers joined the husband, “good Samaritans,” he met along the trail. The husband/father had set out to find them. 5, Emergency Operations Division of the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office was notified that two hikers, a mother and her 14 year-old son, had failed to return and were lost in the wilderness between Trappers Lake and Stillwater Reservoir. Hikers rescued after a night in the Flat Tops Wilderness PRESS RELEASE
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