BSCO volunteers rescue dogs trapped at Green Monarchs
<p>Daniel Whitaker and Boone Randall hold their hunting dogs Faith and Cowgirl after the dogs were rescued from the flanks of the Green Monarchs with the help of the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office. (Photo courtesy BONNER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE)</p>
CLARK FORK — The Bonner County sheriff’s officials rescued two hunting dogs Tuesday that spent two frigid nights trapped on the steep and rugged flanks of Green Monarch Mountain on Lake Pend Oreille.
Daniel Whitaker and Boone Randall of Priest River were hunting bobcat with their dogs, Cowgirl and Faith, on Sunday when the dogs followed their quarry over the side of a steep cliff leading to the lake.
But the dogs unable to get back up the cliff and their owners unable to down-climb the notoriously precipitous mountain terrain on the southeastern shore of the lake.
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