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Missing hiker, 74, and dog found alive after two days near Aspen
A 74-year-old woman and her Irish setter, Tawny, were found alive Tuesday after being lost for two days in the mountains near Aspen, the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said.
Jennifer Hearn was reported missing at 8:39 p.m. Sunday when she failed to return from a hike on Triangle Peak, a steep, rocky trail in the Snowmass Canyon area of the Roaring Fork Valley. The sheriff’s office said this in a press release.
A volunteer search crew from Mountain Rescue Aspen searched for Hearn and Tawny from about 9 p.m. Sunday until 2:40 a.m. Monday. Dozens of volunteers and first responders resumed the search for the couple at 8:17 a.m. Monday, including by plane and helicopter.
Search crews found Tawny, Hearn’s 3-year-old brown Irish setter, near a home on Triangle Peak at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, allowing crews to focus the search on steep, rock-covered hills near the Woody Creek area. according to the sheriff’s office.
Hearn was found in the debris fields on the side of Triangle Peak at 3:15 p.m., sheriff’s officials said in a news release. She is receiving medical care, but further details about her condition were not immediately available.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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