Searchers recovered the body of a 23-year-old Minnesota hiker who fell into East Rosebud Creek near the outlet of Rimrock Lake on June 8, Red Lodge Fire Rescue reported Tuesday.

The body of Tim Sandford of Minnetonka, Minn., was recovered about 1,500 feet downstream from the outlet by search teams using an aerial drone, while the U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team members searched in the creek.

Sandford was swept into the creek while trying to cross Rimrock Lake along the popular trail known as "the Beaten Path" between East Rosebud Lake and Cooke City.

Searcher with Red Lodge Fire Rescue, the Carbon County Sheriff's Office and other agencies have been conducting repeated recovery operations since then in the rugged terrain below the lake.

While fast water, waterfalls, large boulders, logs, a

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