The Night Shift at Rocky Mountain Search and Rescue
When a thirteen-year-old Boy Scout named David Ralston wandered off trail in Colorado's San Juan Mountains in 2019, his scoutmaster radioed for help before sundown....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 121.
When a thirteen-year-old Boy Scout named David Ralston wandered off trail in Colorado's San Juan Mountains in 2019, his scoutmaster radioed for help before sundown. By midnight, temperatures had dropped below freezing, and David was huddled beneath a rock overhang, shivering and terrified. What David didn't know was that a volunteer search-and-rescue team had already fanned out across the ridge above him.…
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