September 11, 2015
From DuluthNewsTribune.com
“It’s a sad ending,” Routt County Undersheriff Ray Birch told the News Tribune on Friday night. “We spent four days in total search-and-rescue mode before going into recovery mode today.”
“The symptoms described … were very consistent with what we’ve seen in the past with altitude sickness and subsequent death,” Birch said. Elevations in the area where Harkins was hunting, in the Sand Mountain and Meaden Peak areas, exceed 9,000 feet.