Seasonal park
ranger Ryan Waltman, 23, of Andover, Minnesota, drowned while on patrol on
Shoshone Lake on Sunday, July 3rd. Waltman, who had worked previously in
the park's backcountry permit office, was in his first season as a ranger
and had been assigned to the lake, where he'd headed out on patrol in a
kayak on Sunday morning.
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When Waltman failed to make
two scheduled radio check-ins, one that evening and the other the
following morning, rangers were dispatched to determine his
whereabouts. A visitor in the Shoshone Lake area reported that he'd
seen an overturned kayak on the lake, and a helicopter was summoned
to search the lake's waters for Waltman. His body was found offshore
shortly thereafter.
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