How An Emergency Location Device Saved A Hiker And Why You Should Use One, Too

Stephanie Butzer, Denver Post: Living
Tue, 07/23/2019 - 8:28am

PITKIN COUNTY — Authorities are reminding avid hikers about the importance of emergency location devices after an injured man was rescued on Cathedral Peak this past weekend. Mountain Rescue Aspen was notified by an emergency SPOT device near Cathedral Peak at about 7:45 a.m. on Sunday. The St. Anthony’s Flight for Life helicopter based in Frisco — about 55 miles away, as the crow flies — flew over the area and located two people around 13,200 feet. RELATED: 10 essentials every hiker should carry in their backpack One of them, a 47-year-old man, injured his right ankle after he had slid and tumbled 150 feet down a snowfield.

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