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Hate to have tourists die out in our neck of the woods. There was a rescue close to our home last year during extremely cold temperatures. Below negative 20F. It's lucky that a rescue team didn't die.
“The cold has an effect on you, too, psychologically. Your brain doesn’t think as well,” Acree said."
"But it was during that final push that the cold took out one of the teams. Their snowmobiles, GPS devices, and phones began to fail.
Now one of the rescue teams needed to be rescued, too. The stranded team built a fire and waited for one of the other crews to reach them. They were lucky. Before the subzero temperatures zapped their phones, a compass app pinged their location."
“The cold has an effect on you, too, psychologically. Your brain doesn’t think as well,” Acree said."
"But it was during that final push that the cold took out one of the teams. Their snowmobiles, GPS devices, and phones began to fail.
Now one of the rescue teams needed to be rescued, too. The stranded team built a fire and waited for one of the other crews to reach them. They were lucky. Before the subzero temperatures zapped their phones, a compass app pinged their location."
Lost on the Grand Mesa: Inside the Daring Drive To Find Skier and Dog
When emergency dispatchers radioed deputies patrolling Colorado’s Mesa and Delta counties on Feb. 1, all they knew was that a 61-year-old skier and “Poppy,” her cousin’s 40-pound short-haired mutt, were lost on the Grand Mesa.
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