A 53-year-old man was rescued after crashing into a vertical mine shaft while snowmobiling in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest over the weekend. Wasatch and Summit search and rescue crews responded to a report of a snowmobiler caught in an abandoned mine shaft in Soapstone Basin. The man had been riding near the Wasatch-Summit county line when he accidentally rode into the vertical mine shaft. Rescue crews spent more than five hours reaching the site and rescuing the man.
<p>KAMAS — A 53-year-old man was rescued after emergency responders say he crashed into a vertical mine shaft while snowmobiling in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest over the weekend.
</p><p>&quot;This person and his snowmobile were hanging about 20 feet above the bottom of the shaft,&quot; agency officials wrote in an incident report Sunday night.
SNOWMOBILING ACCIDENT RESCUE MINE SHAFT UTAH
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