WILSON, Wyo. — Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR) was mobilized on Tuesday, July 22, to rescue an injured mountain biker in the Teton Pass trail system, the agency shared via social media.
Following a 12:40 p.m. call, TCSAR volunteers headed to the Phillips Canyon trail to help a 47-year-old local woman who had crashed while descending the trail and sustained injuries that made her unable to return to the trailhead alone.
TCSAR sent “numerous” volunteers to the scene, the agency said; two teams approached from the Phillips Bench trailhead and traveled on foot via the Arrow Trail with the wheeled litter, while a third team headed up Phillips Canyon from the Fish Creek Road trailhead.
They reached the injured cyclist and her friend around 2:40 p.m. The victim was packaged into the wheeled litter for transport, then rolled and carried for about three miles down the trail to Fish Creek road. The patient and her friend self-transported to seek further medical care. TCSAR’s team made it back to headquarters by 4:30 p.m.
“This was the volunteers’ eighth time responding to a rescue call on Teton Pass this summer, four of which have been for mountain bikers,” TCSAR posted to Facebook.
Those rescues included a cyclist in Black Canyon and two separate incidents on Parallel Trail within days of each other. The agency also responded to an injured trail runner in Phillips Canyon last month.
