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Knowing your ABC's can save your life in the backcountry.

As someone who lived his early years in Wyoming, I always assumed western hikes were the toughest, most arduous, true real deal.

Cattle rustling isn’t a crime relegated to the Old West and the movies, it still happens in Wyoming, and livestock officials say it’s a crime that’s hard to solve.

One recent morning along 14,000-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, a pair of hikers offered some assistance to another they met.

The winter of 2022-’23 walloped large-scale sheep operations in western Wyoming, even putting some ranchers out of business. There’s hope in the industry, however, and new niches are growing.