A helicopter was called in to help rescue an injured hiker who was stranded in the rugged Platte River Wilderness in southcentral Wyoming on Saturday afternoon. Carbon County Search and Rescue responded with more than two dozen volunteers to a Garmin inReach SOS message about a hiker with a broken ankle, according to a report from Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken.
The SOS was from a pair of hikers who had traveled about 2 miles north of Elkhorn Point, Bakken says in his report. One of the hikers had a โsevere ankle injury,โ while the other wasnโt hurt.
Along with the county search and rescue volunteers, aerial responders from Classic Air Rescue and Intermountain Healthcare used a helicopter to locate the hikers along a โsmall game trailโ near a steep canyon above the North Platte River, Bakken said. That โprecariousโ position led responders to call for additional support from both East and West Divisions of Carbon County Search and Rescue.
