It was February 2010 and backcountry search and rescue teams and sheriff’s offices across Colorado were getting frustrated. Repeat signals from a personal locator beacon had been received since ...

Steve Matous, with the Colorado-based Access Fund, says Oregon's Beacon Bill would give amateur climbers a false sense of security. STEVE MATOUS: People think, oh rescue locator beacon. Boom.

The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office reportedly requested help from the Mountain Wave 4x4 team after the men – who were brothers – called for help with an emergency locator beacon. CLATSOP ...

Like, 'well I don't want to get lost, so maybe I don't have a beacon but at least I’ll think twice about going in this weather,'” he said. Now, nearly 30 years later, the units are outdated.

PORTLAND, Ore. - When a rescue team came on Luke Gullberg's body at the top of a Mount Hood glacier and tried to figure out what had become of ...

SALEM -- A bill requiring certain Mt. Hood climbers to carry locator devices cleared a House committee on Thursday. House Bill 2509 was introduced by Rep. John Lim, R-Gresham, in response to the ...

Why, after all the lost lives and all the dangerous rescues, are winter climbing groups on Mount Hood still not required to carry locator beacons that would allow searchers in most cases to ...

The McMurdo Inc. FastFind 220 personal locator beacon used by the Coast Guard. The U.S. Army awarded McMurdo a $34 million contract for similar personal recovery devices to be used for locating ...

Colorado avalanches kill six people on average each winter. The death toll doubled to 12 in the winter of 2020-2021 — tying the modern-day state record. And Colorado sees more avalanche deaths ...

Over the weekend, the Flathead Nordic Ski Patrol helped set up the new beacon checkers on Big Mountain. One is at the Lazy Man's Traverse at Flower Point, ...