WILSON, Wyo. — On Sunday, June 22, Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR) responded to an injured trail runner in Phillips Canyon near Teton Pass.
TCSAR posted on social media that a 35-year-old local male was trail running by himself in Phillips Canyon when he went down with a knee injury. At 2:10 p.m. on Sunday, the man “called 911 after determining that he was unable to walk and would need help getting out of the backcountry.”
From the trailhead on Fish Creek Road, a team of volunteers accessed the canyon on foot to find the patient two miles up the trail. According to TCSAR, the team assessed the man’s injuries, and packaged him for transport in the wheeled litter. The volunteers then brought the patient down the trail to a waiting ambulance, completing the mission in 2 hours, 50 minutes.
TCSAR has reported a busy spring season. In May, TCSAR volunteers assisted a mountain biker on Parallel Trail in the Teton Pass trail network, after having performed a similar rescue in the same area the week prior.
TCSAR also reported that this was its third wheeled litter rescue in about a week. On June 14, volunteers placed an injured female hiker in the wheeled litter for a 1.3-mile transport out of Teton Canyon. Then on June 19, the team had the wheeled litter in action again about 1.2 miles up Spring Creek, south of Alta, to help an injured dirt biker get out of the backcountry with a leg injury.
