Chuck and Brenda Markham were vacationing with friends when they decided to kayak the Buffalo Fork River. The most experienced kayaker in the group, Steve Fretz, took the lead. What they didn’t know that day was that the river was pushing flood stage, running much faster than usual for July.

All the runoff had pushed woody debris into the river creating a maze of strainers and log jams that snagged and stranded some of the boaters.

Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers KC Bess and Cody Lockhart rowed to the rescue.

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