Teton County Search and Rescue was called on two rescues Saturday afternoon. One call came in shortly before 2:00 pm involving two separate parties who were caught in an avalanche in Wolf Trap on Teton Pass.
Search and Rescue Spokesman Cody Lockhart says one party was made up of four individuals skiing toward the top of the bowl who triggered the slide. One of the four was swept down but was not buried and not injured. The second party was lower on the hill, and one of them was buried under five feet of debris. His companions dig him out within about six minutes and found him not breathing. However, they were able to resuscitate him and he suffered no other injury.
While they were on that call, Lockhart says a second call came in to the area near Goosewing Ranch in the Gros Ventre region where a woman was seriously injured in a snowmobile wreck.
Lockhart says the rescue helicopter that had been waved off of the Teton Pass rescue diverted to the second call and evacuated the woman to town. Lockhart says the woman was in on a guided tour and went off the trail into a ravine. She suffered trauma to her upper body when she was thrown off the machine.
Lockhart says she was flown to the Search and Rescue hangar and transferred from there by ambulance to St. John’s Medical Center. Ages and identifications of any of the victims were not immediately available.
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