Men killed in slot canyon flash flood remembered by family as 'extraordinary'
On Sunday morning, a search and rescue team member who also works as a backcountry guide reported that a group who was hiking found a dead man just south of the Paria River and Buckskin Gulch junction, about half a mile into Arizona.
With photos from the family, the recovered body was identified as 65-year-old Gary York from West Chester Township, Ohio. Officials report that an investigation suggests a flash flood caught the pair by surprise while they were hiking and swept them away in a"rushing wall of water." Messer says her dad and his brother-in-law were incredibly close. She said her mother died in April, and York was trying to cheer Walter up with one of their hiking trips together.
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