Laurel Hunter

Search & Rescue

Life, Death, and PTSD as a Ranger in the Tetons

For some climbing rangers in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, every ridgeline holds the memory of a rescue, every peak a body bag. It's more than they can handle alone. “Rachel, where are you?” I yelled into the void above. A fellow Grand Teton climbing ranger,

Avalanche

I Am That

Back when I started working at Jenny Lake, I would spend mornings in meditation on the west porch of the rescue cache with retired ranger Tom Kimbrough and an old Exum mountain guide, George Gardiner. We sat in silence, the incense burning. Sometimes we’d look over the broad expanse