Pandemic Wilderness Explorers Are Straining Search and Rescue
Pandemic Wilderness Explorers Are Straining Search and Rescue Inexperienced adventurers have flooded remote areas like Wyoming’s Sublette County during the pandemic. When they call for help, the task is left to an overwhelmed network of volunteers. Credit...Max Whittaker for The New York Times April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET PINEDALE, Wyo. — Kenna Tanner and her team can list the cases from memory: There was the woman who got tired and did not feel like finishing her hike; the campers, in shorts during a blizzard; the base jumper, misjudging his leap from a treacherous granite cliff face; the...
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