{"id":49210,"date":"2019-06-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rescuers-get-lost-hikers-down-during-8-hour-mountain-rescue\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:00:00","slug":"rescuers-get-lost-hikers-down-during-8-hour-mountain-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rescuers-get-lost-hikers-down-during-8-hour-mountain-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers get lost hikers down during 8-hour mountain rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hikers got lost and stranded on a ledge on Thunder Mountain on Sunday, according to authorities, and it took nearly two dozen responders to get them safely down.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau men Jayce Hyatt, 24, and Dylan Wiard, 27, got lost as they tried to descend the face of Thunder Mountain, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/dps.alaska.gov\/dailydispatch\/Home\/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK19037520\" target=\"_blank\">an Alaska State Troopers dispatch<\/a>. Hyatt also hurt his knee, he told rescuers. At about 2 p.m., Juneau Mountain Rescue personnel went out to the area, JMR Operations Section Chief Jackie Ebert said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ebert said the two men chose to go down the face of the mountain after they had gotten lost and couldn&rsquo;t find the official trail. Rather than turn back and go the way they came, they decided to pick that path and got stranded, Ebert said.<\/p>\n<p>Ebert said they sent 21 people to the scene &mdash; which is nearly 2\/3 of JMR&rsquo;s active responders on call &mdash; for the challenging rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a full technical team deployed through JMR because we had to physically lower both subjects off the mountain with rope systems and it was an eight hour-plus mission,&rdquo; Ebert said via text message.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJuneauMountainRescue%2Fposts%2F2305552106171662&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"799\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen of them were involved in the ropes operation, Ebert said, while the other six were involved in planning and managing the scene. JMR called Capital City Fire\/Rescue around 8 p.m., Ebert said, and CCFR was able to carry the two men down with ATVs. Alaska State Troopers were also on scene,<\/p>\n<p>Hyatt declined treatment on scene, Quinto said, and he was not taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>JMR and CCFR work together fairly often, and Ebert said this operation went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a great team effort in a tough working environment, and it was a pleasure working with CCFR in the capacity which they assisted,&rdquo; Ebert said. &ldquo;Our team was quick to respond and put in a strong effort.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Alex McCarthy at amccarthy@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @akmccarthy.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a challenging operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":49211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,625],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49210"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}