Multiple agencies haven’t given up searching for a Minnesota hiker missing for nearly a week in Wyoming’s rugged Cloud Peak Wilderness.

Grant Gardner was in northern Wyoming for a planned three-day hike around the Misty Moon Lake area, Big Horn County Sheriff Ken Blackburn says in a Monday report detailing the status of what’s become an expansive search effort for the man.

His goal was to summit the 13,166-footCloud Peak, the highest in the Bighorn Mountains. And he did that, according to a July 29 text message Gardner sent to his wife “letting her know he’d made it to the summit,” Blackburn said in his report.

“Since that time, there has not been any contact with Gardner,” he added.

The text his wife received indicated Gardner’s climb “was more taxing than he expected and he was tired

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