After a two-day search, a rescue dog discovered the body of 28-year-old Trace Carillo on Mt. Taylor, a steep peak on the western side of Teton Pass. The snowboarder was swept and buried in an avalanche Wednesday afternoon. Carillo was a wilderness ranger for the U.S....
Volunteers for Teton County Search and Rescue invested nearly 13,000 hours into the operation last year. That’s a 19% increase from 2018. But that spike in volunteer involvement doesn’t necessarily come from more rescues. In both 2018 and 2019, Search and Rescue...
Steve Tyler and Matt Walker have a Grand Teton story that eclipses perhaps all others. They were both struck by lightning on the 13,776-foot peak. It was July 2010 and the men were with different groups on different parts of the mountain. That day they were among the...