DENVER – Only one of two missing Colorado snowmobile riders was found alive after the men were stranded inside a remote area of Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, authorities said.
The 65-year-old who was rescued and the 58-year-old who did not survive were located Saturday, The Denver Post reported.
The men were not publicly identified pending notification of their families.
The men were reported missing Thursday and believed to have been snowmobiling in the Wild Mountain area near the northwest boundary of the monument near the Utah and Colorado border, the National Park Service said.
The men from Thornton and Deer Trail, Colorado, were inexperienced riders who were previously rescued from the same area by the Unitah County Search and Rescue team Feb. 29, the Unitah County Sheriff’s Office said.
Search and rescue teams found their truck Friday and located their snowmobiles Saturday morning, but initially saw no sign of the men, authorities said.
Searchers on foot spotted the older man waving an orange sled Saturday afternoon. He was rescued by helicopter and taken to a hospital, the sheriff’s office said.
His companion was dead when rescuers arrived.
