Becoming Unobstructed

Snowboarding In July, A Rescue Mission

Written by Derek MacDonald | July 3, 2017

Wilderness First Responder: What It's Like To Use It by Derek MacDonald

How a snowboard trip in July turned into a rescue mission.

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I didn't notice that Jen was in this photo at the time that it was taken. If I had, maybe things would’ve played out differently.

On July 2nd, 2017, I woke up at 4a.m. in my hammock. I packed up my sleeping bag and quietly tossed it into my already loaded 4Runner, doing my best not to wake up anyone else. A few friends and I had been camping in the Popo Agie Wilderness outside of Lander, Wyoming near the Wind River Range.

By 11a.m. I was putting on snowboard boots, roadside on Beartooth Pass, around 250 miles away and just shy of the Montana boarder...

onward.

-dmac