An Arizona woman who got lost while hiking in southwestern Colorado was rescued this week after a 2-hour search. It happened late Tuesday night in Dolores County, about 12 miles west of Telluride.
The woman is from Phoenix and was hiking with her son. He told emergency personnel that he and his 48-year-old mother got separated from each other while hiking on the Woods Lake Trail. That’s located in the Uncompahgre National Forest and the Lizard Head Wilderness.
Search crews from San Miguel County and Dolores County set about trying to find the woman — who didn’t have equipment for spending a night outside in the wild — right before dark…