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Man rescued from quicksand during hike in Utah
- On Sunday, an experienced hiker sank up to his thigh in a small canyon on the second day of a 20-mile backpacking trip in Arches National Park and activated an emergency satellite beacon, alerting Grand County responders.
- Quicksand resisted freeing attempts as the wet sand flowed back when disturbed, while John Marshall recalled a 2014 incident where a 78-year-old woman was stuck over 13 hours two miles away in Arches National Park, which hosts over 1 million visitors annually.
- Positioning a ladder and boards, the Grand County Search and Rescue team slowly worked the hiker's leg free using traction boards and backboards while a park ranger’s shovel was spotted via a drone.
- Marshall soon had a bird's-eye view via the drone as the team coordinated the extraction, noting the hiker stood in near-freezing muck in temperatures in the 20s for a couple of hours.
- Getting trapped in quicksand is a real hazard despite its trope status; Marshall said both rescues had very happy endings, highlighting the value of emergency satellite beacons and Grand County emergency responders, responders reported.
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Utah Hiker Rescued In Arches National Park After Getting Trapped In Quicksand And Spotted By Drone
quicksand at Arches National Park in Utah The ‘Big 3’ of things every child in America was led to believe would be a threat later in life but that turned out to be virtually inconsequential are Stop, Drop, and Roll (1), the Bermuda Triangle (2), and Quicksand (3). Unfortunately, for one hiker at Utah’s Arches National Park they just lived through a brush with the latter, quicksand. The hiker was rescued over the weekend, virtually unharmed, afte…
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