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Planoites found dead in Colorado mountains
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Custer County, Colo., Search and Rescue workers in look for two Plano hikers who were reported missing after they did not arrive on a Friday flight. The hikers were found dead Sunday morning in the Ellingwood Arete at Crestone Needle in Colorado and may have died as early as July 27.
By Jon Vanderlaan, jvanderlaan@acnpapers.com
Two Plano residents were found dead early Sunday on a Colorado mountain after their hike apparently went awry.
Captain Bob Pruiksma, a member of Custer County Search and Rescue, said Duane and Linda Buhrmester, both 57, were hiking Tuesday morning when something went wrong and they fell from the mountain they were climbing.
He said the two were found in a mudslide area, and weather could have been a contributing factor to their deaths.
They were found in the Ellingwood Arete, a climb that takes hikers up to the Crestone Needle, which has a height of just under 14,200 feet.
The two set out on their hike Tuesday morning, Pruiksma said, and based on family member accounts and remaining supplies, the two probably died before noon.
The search began Saturday evening when one of the couple’s sons called the Custer County Sheriff’s office to report the two missing after they failed to board a Friday flight.
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If anyone has any "good memories" of Duane and Linda please email metrodesk@columbian.com...attention John Branton...It would be nice for a story to the local folks. "