POCATELLO — For two intense days, search crews scoured the rugged central Idaho wilderness for missing Blaine County hiker Heather Wayment while her family, friends and community waited anxiously for news.

However, the breakthrough didn’t come from the organized search teams but three Pocatello mountain bikers who, despite extensive media coverage, had no idea anyone was even missing.

Brothers Tommy and Vinton Gwinn, along with their friend Shelton Robinson, were on their annual mountain biking and camping trip in Stanley when they say they came upon Wayment in the mountains of Camas County, wandering in her underwear with her feet covered in blood, about 17 miles from her vehicle.

Wayment was reported missing by family members on Wednesday, Sept. 17, after she failed to return from a h

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