Dad-son hunting trip goes wrong when truck rolls off hill, stranding them, rescuers say
A father and son were rescued after a rollover crash stranded them in the Wyoming wilderness, rescuers said.
The pair were on a hunting trip when their truck rolled off a “steep hillside” in Sublette County west of Big Piney on Sept. 19, Kenna M. Tanner, a coordinator with Tip Top Search and Rescue, said in a Sept. 20 Facebook post.
They were both thrown from the truck into an aspen grove, Tanner said.
Because the father lost his phone in the wreck, he couldn’t call for help right away, Tanner told Cowboy State Daily.
He built a fire for his injured juvenile son to keep him warm, as “he tried to get his bearings and figure out where they were,” Tanner told the outlet. After finding his phone, he trekked until he found enough service to make a call.
Tanner said the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office got a call from the father at around 3 a.m.
Using the father’s cellphone coordinates, Tanner said dispatchers sent first responders from multiple agencies to the crash site in the woods.
After the boy was put into a litter, Tanner said first responders used a rope system to pull him out of the grove to the “top of the 40-yard hill.”
A helicopter airlifted the boy to a hospital, according to Tanner. His condition has not been revealed.
Big Piney is about 150 miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park.
This story was originally published September 21, 2023 at 1:34 PM with the headline "Dad-son hunting trip goes wrong when truck rolls off hill, stranding them, rescuers say."
