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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, October 3rd. I'm Mac Watson, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom… "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B backslash story."

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Two mountain bikers, who were deep into the backcountry of Idaho said they came upon a woman, who was alone, hungry, and said she had been looking to find her way out and back to safety for almost three days. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports, the woman is lucky to be alive.

"What had happened is apparently, some point during her ordeal, she'd lost her shoes, so she'd wrapped her her like her sweatshirt and her shirt around her feet to protect her feet. And he said they spent the better part of a couple hours with her before, you know, they're able to make contact in a a search and rescue helicopter arrived. But, you know, they said they they question her, but they they weren't trying to be rude or really pry. Oddly enough, she didn't seem to really want to talk much about the word he said is, she seemed embarrassed about how she ended up at that situation. They gathered that she had been out there for she was nearing the end of her third day. She's already spent two days and two nights out there, and was coming to the end of the third day, which would have led into the third night. And the the gentleman described the conditions that week had been getting pretty darn cold at night, like down to the 20s, but getting up into the 60s, even 60s or even 70s during the days and then no precipitation. And that's probably what saved her, because I double checked that with the search and rescue guy here in Wyoming, and he said, yes, if people it's surprising how cold of temperatures people can survive if they're dry, if they're wet, that's a whole load ball game, because then the hyperthermia sets in, and that kills a lot of people in the back country. So probably what it boils. Down to is this woman's saving grace was the fact that she was able to stay dry the entire time.

One of the cyclists, Shelton Robinson of Pocatello, Idaho, said it was random luck that he and his companion happened to find Heather Wayment at about 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 18.

Read the full story HERE.

– The junior senator from Wyoming, Cynthia Lummis, has written a letter to President Donald Trump. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Senator Lummis is urging the president to pardon a Wyoming diesel "delete" mechanic who was just released from prison and living in Cheyenne.

"In the early 2000s 2010 era, those early emission systems are pretty clunky and could cause problems in your truck. And so guys were just like, well, I can make this run better. I can save your fleet. Let's delete them. And also, pretty soon after the EPA started pursuing criminal charges against guys that were doing that and the people that are embroiled in those cases, describe it as sort of like an unexpected thing, like, whoa. Why am I not just getting a stern letter or a seasoned desist or a civil penalty? Why am I now going to be a convicted felon? And so that was Troy Lake family man, 65 years old, 64 when convicted, is now a felon for doing these deletes. And Senator Lummis, in her letter, said this is unequal prosecution. This looks political."

Lake, was been released early from the Colorado-based federal prison that