Anyone can go visit Hasty in Dillon. He’s always there, right next to the tennis courts, atop a boulder, looking vigilantly outward — a statue, forever holding a noble pose.
In Summit County, Hasty is a canine celebrity, the first trained search-and-rescue dog to call the county home. His owner, Patti Burnett, was a ski patroller at Copper Mountain Resort when she became Summit’s first avalanche rescue dog handler. Since then, she and many patrollers after her have followed their dogs’ noses to seek the lost and help those in need.
Burnett has many stories of Hasty, from his rambunctious puppy days (he once rode the Sierra chairlift by himself, with a nervous Burnett one chair behind) to his working adult days, filled with successful finds.
Patti Burnett 