A search is on for two experienced elk hunters who went missing in the Rio Grande National Forest in Conejos County on Sept. 11, and the fiancée of one is imploring people with experience hunting, hiking or traveling by horse in the rugged terrain on the New Mexico border north of Chama to head to the Rio de Los Pinos trailhead or surrounding area to help search.

Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25, were last heard from Thursday afternoon at around 2:45 p.m. when Porter shared his location with his fiancée, Bridget Murphy, from his Garmin InReach satellite communication device.

Porter, from Asheville, North Carolina, by way of Montana, and Stasko, from Salt Lake City, were hunting southwest of Monte Vista in Game Management Unit 81 , which stretches from the Continental Divide on the

See Full Page