A New York woman injured while hiking in Wyoming's Wind River Range is in the hospital after an arduous rescue. Thirty-6-year-old Leah Bursey broke her leg while trying to cross a boulder field near Gannet Peak, Wyoming's tallest mountain, Tuesday afternoon. Fremont County authorities dispatched a rescue helicopter after getting a distress signal from Bursey and her husband but crews weren't able to reach them until just before dark. The area was too rugged for the chopper to land there and it took crews nearly four hours for them to hike her out on a stretcher in the dark. She and her husband were flown to the hospital but some crew members had to spend the night in the backcountry because of the chopper's weight restrictions.
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