Whitefish mushroom hunter recounts rescue from Frozen Lake area
Eureka Volunteer Ambulance Service meets a helicopter from Canada to transfer Whitefish resident Clifford Persons to the hospital after he was rescued earlier this month in the Frozen Lakes area of Lincoln County. (Courtesy photo/Bo Pitman)
Joe Tabor, Steve Persons, Neil Persons and Chris Persons, all sons of Clifford Persons, joined Can-Am SAR in the search effort in the Frozen Lake area of Lincoln County. (Photo Courtesy Julie Cuffe)
Clifford Persons recuperates at Logan Health Whitefish following his rescue from the Frozen Lake area of Lincoln County. (Photo provided)
An outing earlier this month that started as a day trip to pick mushrooms in the Frozen Lake area northeast of Eureka turned into an international search mission for a man many consider a Whitefish legend.
People who know Clifford Persons, 87, of Whitefish, know he is no stranger to the wilderness...
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