BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — It’s been a busy holiday weekend for Colorado search and rescue teams as people enjoying our great outdoors get themselves into trouble.
From stuck scramblers to injured mountain bikers, it’s been a busy Labor Day Weekend for Boulder’s Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, one of the busiest and oldest mountain search and rescue organizations in the country.
Volunteers rescued six people across the Front Range on Saturday and another Sunday, two of which involved helicopter hoist rescues.
Several advanced technical rescues required volunteers to rock climb to the stranded individuals – certainly no easy feat for these search and rescue crews. For context, the organization responds to about 200 calls a year in total.
“This is kind of a pretty high volume for us this time of year, traditionally, but certainly, six rescues in a day matches our record, especially when we had three simultaneous calls going at the same time. We really, really kind of stripped all of our resources,” said spokesperson Drew Hildner.