KAMAS — When a person goes missing in the mountains, minutes matter. The difference between locating a missing person alive, or potentially not finding them at all, often depends on how quickly searchers saturate the area.

KSL’s Uinta Triangle podcast follows the 2011 search for an Australian trekker named Eric Robinson who failed to arrive at the end of the Uinta Highline Trail. Robinson was hiking solo, and planned to be out of contact while on the trail for 10 days. When he didn’t make his rendezvous with a friend at the end of the trail, the friend notified search-and-rescue.

Searchers were disadvantaged though by the long lapse of time between when Robinson started his hike on the roughly 65-mile trail and when his friend reported him missing. Robinson was an experienced trekker who

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