Teton County Search & Rescue had a busy weekend aiding victim of avalanches around the region. The Teton County team received a call from Park County, Montana Friday about a group of skiers who’d been caught in an avalanche on a mountain just outside of Cooke City, Montana. According to the accident report from the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, three skiers were caught in the slide, with one sustaining serious lung and rib injuries. With weather preventing the use of helicopters to respond from Montana, Teton County Search and Rescue got the call, and responded with two team members on board as short-haulers. Flying directly to the avalanche site from the Teton County hangar, the team located the patient and successfully short-hauled him to further medical treatment in Cooke City. The rescue team then flew to Cody for the night before returning to Jackson in the morning. The ship was back in action just a few hours later on Saturday, when the team was alerted to an injured skier in Pinedale Canyon just south of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. That skier was also short-hauled to safety.
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