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Show Hurt motorcyclist found near Jensen A Provo man was rescued Thursday at noon after laying 21 hours in the Honda Hills west of Jensen following a motorcycle accident which rendered him unable to move. Mark Walsh, 23, was found by the Uintah County Search and Rescue Patrol at 12:19 p.m. Thursday, April 9, and was transported to the Uintah County Hospital by a 40th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron helicopter from Hill Air Force Base. At 3 a.m. Thursday, Uintah County Sheriff Arden Stewart received a call from a friend of Walsh who said he hadn't shown up for work that day. At day break, Stewart located the man's U.S. Army Chevrolet pickup about one mile north of U.S. 40 near Jensen. Steward initiated a ground search with 17 men and 14 vehicles. Also the Uintah County Search and Rescue used an airplane in the search. At 10 a.m., Steward requested the help of an Air Rescue ' and Recovery Squadron helicopter from Hill Air Force Base. At 12:19 p.m., Walsh was found by Norman Pease, Uintah County Search and Rescue, on a road near the Escalante Ranee fence line about two miles east of his pickup, Stewart said. "When we found him he was very exhausted and needed water," Stewart said. Walsh was flown to the Uintah County Hospital where he was stabilized, and later flown to the University of Utah Medical Center where he was reported 1 in stable but serious condition. He suffered a broken back in the accident. Walsh told us he was traveling north at a high rate of speed when he hit a bump and went down a gulley and was thrown 20 feet from his bike. He had crawled 30 feet and waved several times to passing aircraft, Sheriff Stewart said. "That area is extremely hard to search thoroughly because there are hundreds of gullies and ravines running in all directions," said Commander Gary Maxson, Uintah County Search and Rescue, about the search. Walsh had left Vernal at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and had not returned, though he was scheduled to work early Thursday morning. |