On June 15, 2024, at 12:58am, Gallatin County 911 Dispatch was notified of a pair of mountain bikers suffering from heat exhaustion and were lost in the area of Brackett Creek Rd.

Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office Deputies and GCSSAR volunteers deployed a hasty team from the Valley Section in a side-by-side ATV up Brackett Creek Rd west of Bridger Canyon Rd to search for the mountain bikers. GCSSAR located the cyclists as they were self-extracting on foot.

GCSSAR personnel conducted medical evaluation of the bikers and determined they were suffering from heat exhaustion but otherwise unharmed. GCSSAR assisted in escorting the bikers back to the trailhead.

Sheriff Dan Springer would like to remind recreationists to always bring sufficient food and water especially when conditions are forecasted to be hot! On top of the heat, when you are active at higher altitudes, your breathing rate increases and more water than usual is lost due to breathing, so it is important to have plenty of extra water.