![]() Rangers ask hikers to visit the Jenny Lake Ranger Station before backcountry trips for the most current route conditions. Carrying an ice ax and crampons - and knowing how to use them - is strongly advised. Though many valley trails are open, elevations above 9,000 feet in the Teton Range are still snow-covered, the park’s statement said. Dont even think of going anywhere near the Divide without snowshoes and an ice ax. Strzalkowski was flown to Lupine Meadows and transferred by air medical transport to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. As of 4 days ago, at Paintbrush Canyon, patchy snow begins about 0.5 miles above the junction with String Lake Trail. Paintbrush Divide, Grand Teton National Park, WY His partner hiked up the trail to get cell service to call Teton Interagency Dispatch, which sent three Jenny Lake climbing rangers in a helicopter to attend to the injured man, who after assessing and stabilizing him, decided he needed to be helicoptered out. He was seriously injured, enough that he could not walk out on his own, and had to be helicoptered out of the mountains. Jarek Strzalkowski, 35 lost his footing and fell over steep snowfields and rock outcroppings toward Grizzly Bear Lake.
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