NAMPA -- A 14-year-old Nampa boy is home resting after falling around 200 feet off of a trail at Mount Borah - Idaho's tallest mountain.
Colton Garner was hiking with his Boy Scout troop on Friday when he fell. He wasn't found until the next morning.
Colton and 11 others from his scout troop were returning back to their base camp after hiking to the top of Mount Borah.
"We climbed to the top we were coming down and I stepped off to go to the bathroom," said Colton.
Colton let the others pass and as he went to put his backpack back on -- it slipped.
"I sat it back up on the ledge, went to get up, started falling off, so I reached for it and I fell," said Colton.
He fell an estimated 200 feet down a rock face, knocking him unconscious.
Because nobody saw him fall, the rest of the group returned to the base camp assuming Colton was on his way back down.
"After about an hour we started going back up the mountain, I took a walkie talkie from one of the people that were next to us and I started practically running up the mountain," said Colton's friend Brett Jones.
Meanwhile, Colton's mom Amanda Garner got a call every mother fears.
"We got a call Friday night from one of the leaders of the scout troop that went to say that he was missing," said Amanda Garner.
The next morning, Colton finally came to.
"I was yelling for my scout troop, everybody, the whole morning as loud as I could -- I could hear my voice echoing," said Colton.
"I was just praying he'd be OK overnight," said Jones.
"It's something that you see on TV, that happens to other people, you don't ever think that's going to happen to you," said Amanda Garner.
Seventeen hours after the fall, rescuers repelled down to Colton.
"It was a great feeling. I mean, I didn't know I was missing until, I mean I didn't really comprehend where I was, what I was doing," said Colton.
"I hugged him as much as I could. I was scared to touch him. You want to grab him, you want to hold him but you're scared to touch him," said Amanda Garner.
Amazingly enough Colton only had minor scrapes and bruises.
"No stitches, no broken bones," said Colton.
"You can almost see the square of where he hit as each time he rolled, he hit something new," said Amanda Garner.
Colton credits his friends for helping rescuers get to him.
"I love them so much, just the effort they all put into it, pretty much run up the mountain one and a half times," said Colton.
"It is a big miracle that he lived through that cause he fell over 200 feet down this rock face, I'm just really happy he's OK," said Jones.
Colton was flown to an Idaho Falls Hospital for observation and returned back to Nampa Sunday night.
Colton's mom says the doctors were amazed that he only had minor injuries. In fact, the worse of those injuries is a chipped vertebrae that doctors say will heal on its own.
