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ST. GEORGE — Three hikers that made their way to the top of the Island in the Sky in Snow Canyon State Park were unable to rappel back down and were later rescued by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue’s high-angle rope rescue team on Friday night.
The call came in to dispatch about 4:30 p.m. reporting the three were stuck on top of Island in the Sky, a steep-walled sandstone butte located in the middle of Snow Canyon State Park.
Rescuers soon learned that the trio was able to get to the top of the bluff, but with only 150 feet of rope, “all they could see were these steep drop-offs, and without enough rope, they just couldn’t get back down,” Cashin said.
The stranded hikers, one man and two women visiting the area from Idaho and Colorado, then searched for a safe route to rappel down off the bluff for more than two hours before contacting authorities.
