The weather started to turn on them just as the choppers dropped Matt and his team on the far side of Long’s Peak. It felt good to be on the move. As soon as the chopper pulled away, he heard Luke, who was taking a team up another side, say in his radio, “Great. Looks like the afternoon storm is moving in early today. Gonna make the search for the kid real fun.”
The pretext they had crafted to disguise their movements was also going to make it hard to coordinate the various teams’ movements toward the Summit.
One of the climbers on his team, a cop in his work time, said, “If he’s a climber, he’ll turn aside. He could take the old cable route, then head down into Wild Basin.”
Matt slung his pack over his shoulder. “Maybe. Maybe not. Depends how bad he wants up there. Doesn’t matter. We g
