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The first words a young Ryan Hess remembers reading came out of a 1973 version of Colorado Revised Statute.
Hess, whose father was a police officer in the town of Ouray in the 70s, had a copy of the Colorado Revised Statute in his truck at all times, thanks to a small gift from a local judge.
“All I remember is that I saw it as my Dad’s cop book and it was really, really cool to me,” Hess said from inside his office at the Moffat County Public Safety Center. “So I would grab it from time to time and would try to read it when I was a really little kid, so I’ve been reading Colorado law since I was probably 3 years old.”
Members of Moffat County Search and Rescue participate in training with Classic Air in mid-December in Moffat County.
As avalanche season and winter recreation heats up in Moffat County, the volunteer Search and Rescue unit is currently accepting applications for new members for 2021.
According to SAR Captain Barry Barnes, Moffat County’s outfit currently has 15 active members, but is hoping to push closer to 24-25 members in 2021.
“The more members we can get, the better,” Barnes said. “If we can get to 24 or 25 members, that’s great. It’s hard for people to get away; they have jobs, they have their families, so we don’t have a whole lot of people on missions when we have them. But the more the merrier.”