“ Feel very lucky to be alive and to have my leg,” Ryan said. “It was pouring snow worse than it had been the whole time,” Ryan said.Ĭrews were worried they'd have to stay another night, but then a small break in the storm allowed a DPS helicopter to hoist Ryan out. The snowstorm forced Ryan and the rangers to stay the night, but when they woke up in the morning. “I just felt relief I just felt like I was going to be OK,” Ryan said. Ryan, now convinced he would lose his leg, had to wait an hour for three other rangers to show up. Together they managed to get him free. My whole hips felt like they were ripping out,” Ryan said. “He started to pull on that, but it just felt like it was ripping my leg off. Then he saw the ranger who tried using a rope and pully to get him out. I didn't think that it was real,” Ryan said. “I had seen a flash of light, and at that point, I thought I was dreaming. I couldn't, I couldn't really control to hold myself up,” Ryan said.Įxhausted, Ryan fell asleep and collapsed into the near-freezing water eight hours after Jessika left. “My hips were just so tired from standing like that, that they weren't holding me up. “About 30 minutes after she left it started snowing really hard, so I was stuck in the water while it was pouring snow,” Ryan said. Still soaking wet, Jessika started the four-hour hike back to get cell service. “That's when I started to panic a little bit and I got scared,” Ryan said. No matter what they tried, Ryan's leg wouldn't budge.

“But every second she would scrape it would just fill back up instantly,” Ryan said. Jessika desperately tried to dig out his leg. It felt like it had dried instantly I couldn't move my leg at all,” Ryan said. “It felt like you were just sinking into, like, wet concrete.

“As I was helping her I didn't realize my right leg was sinking all the way into the sand, so it got about to my waist on my right leg and my left leg started sinking also,” Ryan said. Jessika’s leg sunk in the mud, she tripped and fell forward into the water. He and his girlfriend Jessika were almost to the Subway in Zion when their hike took a turn for the worse. “We got about four and a half miles in,” said Ryan Osmun. SPRINGDALE, Utah - A hiker was stuck in quicksand for almost 10 hours at Zion National Park over the weekend in a remote area.

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