At 4:00 pm on Sunday, February 28th, the Summit County Rescue
Group received a 911 call from two snowshoers in the area of Boreas
Pass/Baldy Mountain.
The rescue coordinator was able to make direct contact with the
snowshoers via cell phone, and they stated that they were in a
white-out and had become disoriented. Their intended route was to
go from the Baldy trailhead up to the Iowa Mills mine site and then
to the summit of Baldy Mountain, but when they saw lightning, they
left their route for safety reasons.
23 volunteer rescuers responded during a heavy snowstorm and and
began to search from both the Baldy and Boreas Pass trailheads,
with some teams on snowmobiles and others on snowshoes or skis. The
subjects were found approximately 3/4 of a mile north of Bakers
Tank, at 7:45 pm. They were uninjured, and the mission wrapped up
at approximately 9:00 pm