A Pennsylvania family is thanking their lucky stars after their 22-year-old son has recovered from being struck by a tree that collapsed while he was hiking near Porcupine Falls in Wyoming earlier this summer.
Will Dusinberre was working at a ranch in Wyoming when he and some friends made the trek to Porcupine Falls on their day off. Instead of it being a peaceful summer hike, it turned into a nightmare when Dusinberre and his friends were struck by a tree as it collapsed.
“I don’t remember much from that day or even the day before really,” Dusinberre said Monday afternoon. “I just remember hiking out with my buddies and that we had stopped to swim and relax for a little bit.”
Dusinberre is hazy on the details of the day but has heard more of the timeline from witnesses and his friends that were there.
“Somebody yelled ‘Tree,’ and turned around and I was already hit,” Dusinberre said. “I didn’t have time to move.”
One of Dusinberre’s friends who wasn’t injured ran to the top of the trail looking for help. That run would’ve been about seventh-tenths of a mile, and he was shouting for help the entire way.