Search and Rescue

Bretagne is the last known surviving search-and-rescue dog to work Ground Zero.

Tough terrain made a helicopter evacuation impossible and even ATVs were unable to reach an injured mountain biker on Wednesday in Big Sky. However, Search & Rescue teams WERE able to reach and extract the biker.

Two hikers became lost from their group on Sunday afternoon but the story ends well north of West Yellowstone.

Search and Rescue teams did not find the 8 year old girl today who has been missing near the Headwaters since Sunday evening. We've got official details from the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office.

Thankfully, these incidents have happy endings but yet again skiers needed to be rescued after skiing out of bounds at Bridger Bowl in two separate calls for assistance.

The story ends well with this hunter being rescued yesterday from the Beaver Creek Drainage. Here is the official Press Release from the Gallatin County Sheriff's office:

Gallatin County Dispatch received a call at 4:10pm on Christmas Eve, from a woman whose snowmobile party was stranded on Buck Ridge south of Big Sky. According to the Press Release "The caller stated they had three children ages four, nine and eleven and three adults in their group...