MORAN — The two horses that went missing somewhere north of Moran on Oct. 27 remain lost more than six weeks later. Extensive aerial searches have turned up nothing, and winter has settled into the high country.

"Nothing yet," Ron Ostrom, one of the horse owners, told Cowboy State Daily. "We've got the brand inspectors in three states looking for him. There's a pile of people looking for him. That's all we can say right now."

Ostrom said the horses left camp during a late-season outing in the mountains.

"It was such a nice fall. We were just riding, camping out," Ostrom said. "We looked for them for a week up there in the mountains before we decided that we had to come out."

The Turpin Meadow area appears to be the last confirmed location for the animals, though Ostrom said reports fro

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