Nov 8, 2009 12:39 pm US/Mountain
Missing Camper Found Alive After 2 Weeks
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) ―
A Casper man missing for two weeks after failing to return to a hunting camp has been found alive — two days after rescuers suspended their search and the man's father said his son had probably died.
Thirty-nine-year-old Travis McMahan was found in the southern Big Horn Mountains by his father, Dave McMahan, and others who were in the area in a last-ditch effort to find Travis before a snowstorm.
Travis got lost after leaving camp on Oct. 24 and spent his first three nights in the woods before finding an abandoned sheepherder's cabin. Two nights later he broke into another cabin that had food.
He walked in different directions to try and find civilization but returned to the cabin each night.
He ran out of food on Saturday and decided to walk again, and was spotted by searchers.
Sgt. Mark Sellers with the Natrona County Sheriff's Office says Travis refused medical treatment.
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Information from: Casper Star-Tribune - Casper, http://www.casperstartribune.net
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