Second search for Strittmater

For three days, the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office conducted a second search for a hunter who went missing last October. Mark Anthony Strittmater went missing on October 19, 2019 while hunting in the Medicine Bow Forest.

From June 26-28, Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Allison and search and rescue teams initially searched Forest Road 801 and Forest Road 830, the Deep Creek/Rawlins South Road and Deep Jack Road, respectively. The search area was then expanded to include Strawberry Draw and Dexter Peak. According to a press release from the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office, the search included 19 searchers, five K9 units and aerial drones. 

Following the three day search over the last weekend in June, no additional clues were found leading to the location of Strittmater.

Encampment, Rawlins, Baggs and Sweetwater Search and Rescue aided in the search for Strittmater along with Jackson Hole Search Dogs, Wyoming Game and Fish and Carbon County Emergency Manager Lenny Laymen. The searchers included Russ Hemmert, John Labrec, Steve Lucero, Vincent Vogt, Ryan Bjork, Zac Rogers, Brice Martin, Shaylee Burgess, Cory Nuhn, Suzanne Zweigart, Sheriff Archie Roybal, Dave Allen, Mike Lujan, Ron Brown, Danielle Hemmert, Game Warden Kim Olson, Christopher Frazier and Melissa Lucero.