
MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A distress sign originally imagined to be from a crashed plane led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a grizzly bear in a distant Wyoming wilderness, in accordance to sheriff’s officials. No airplane or helicopter had crashed but a crew making ready to lookup the Francs Peak place on Monday learned the sign gained by the U.S. Air Power Rescue Coordination Centre was from a private locator beacon, the Park County Sheriff’s Place of work reported in a statement Tuesday.
The 68-year-old Buffalo, New York, male on a multi-working day backpacking excursion experienced activated the product soon after remaining seriously mauled by the grizzly. A helicopter workforce uncovered the man and flew him to a further helicopter at rendezvous point. That helicopter flew him to a clinic in Billings, Montana.
Sheriff’s and Wyoming Recreation and Fish Division officers have not disclosed the man’s title or clinical issue.
The man experienced bear spray but the bear shocked him and he didn’t have time to use it, the sheriff’s statement mentioned.
The spot all around Francs Peak, a 13,000-foot summit in the Washakie Wilderness sout










