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RescueOutcome: Rescued by SAREquipment failure

Rescue — Mount Moosilauke, Jan 4, 2010

·Mount Moosilauke

50-year-old woman from Thetford, Vermont

Patricia Dewey, age 50, was snowshoeing alone on Mount Moosilauke when she broke a snowshoe approximately a mile and a half from the trailhead. She activated a Personal Locator Beacon, which gave rescuers her exact GPS coordinates. Fish and Game was notified around 6:30 p.m. and she was brought out safely by about 8:30 p.m.

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