While most of the attention of hikers and the inevitable corresponding search and rescue missions tends to take place in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Wet Mountains can be equally dangerous when the weather changes abruptly. Starting this past Friday, May 30, and extending into Saturday, May 31, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office responded to six hikers stranded on Greenhorn Mountain in the far southern Wet Mountains on the borders of Custer, Pueblo, and Huerfano Counties. Greenhorn is the tallest mountain summit in the Wet Mountain Range, with a peak that rises above the tree line to 12,352 feet above sea level, and despite the name, it is not a place for greenhorn hikers to get experience. Like the rest of the Rocky…

