LOST DOG in Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado

HELP US FIND RIPLEY the BERNERBEAR
UPDATE: Here is a description of the hitchhiker-Description of male hitchhiker: Strawberry blond hair with full facial hair, approximately 5’07-5’08, 150lbs, skinny, he had light colored older model skis.
EDIT: Folks if you see a man that fits this description with a Berner please just call the police. I have called the surrounding dispatches and they are keeping an eye out as well. Having them respond is a lot faster than telling me and then me packing up my infant and traveling from Colorado Springs.

A tip came in saying a male hitchhiker with a Bernese Mountain Dog on Independence Pass in Colorado was picked up by a white van heading east towards Leadville and Buena Vista.

How can you tell if it is Ripley?? A big tell is her fur on her right back leg is shorter than the rest of her. And she has a big black freckle on the top of her nose.