Rescuers searching for hiker missing in Beartooth Mountains
A 2015 Wood River High School graduate is missing after going hiking in the Beartooth Mountains.
Published: Jul. 7, 2021 at 2:51 PM MDT
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Search and rescue teams are still looking for a 23-year-old woman who has not been in contact with family since last week, when she started a hike in the Beartooth Mountains, north of Yellowstone National Park.
Rescuers found Tatum Morell’s tent and campsite Monday night. Morell used a satellite communicator on Thursday night to check in with her mother in Ketchum, Idaho.
Officials believe the experienced climber left Friday morning to summit a peak and didn’t return to her campsite.
Red Lodge Fire and Rescue officials say they’ve been unable to get a signal from the satellite device or Morell’s cellphone.
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