PALISADES, Idaho -- It was an emotional reunion after a missing Boy Scout was found near Palisades Campground.

Fourteen year old Logan Lish, from Marsh Valley, was spotted just before 10 a.m. Wednesday above the Upper Palisades Lake by helicopter. Then it took more than three hours to transport him off the mountain by horseback.

He was separated from his scout troop around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and lost overnight.

"And that's when your imagination goes wild. Was it animals? A cliff?" said Nickie Lish, Logan’s mom.

Logan’s mom, family and friends did not find out he was missing until late Tuesday night. That is when they responded with help from the entire community and 16 horses.

Search and Rescue responded in less than 30 minutes after the call, coming directly from another rescue of two motorcyclists in their 30s.

"It was very simple; a child means a lot more,” said Mary Anderson from Search and Rescue. “It was warm. We knew where they were. They weren't hurt."

In addition, Bonneville County Police Department sent out three officers on motorcycles. Two search dogs came in from Wyoming. Jefferson County Police Department showed up in the early morning, and the Forest Service brought the helicopter, which ultimately found the lost scout.

"While we were here we got texts and phone calls saying 'OK, we're coming up, what do you need, what do you need,'” said Lish.

Even Logan helped make the rescue a success. He found a place to sleep in a hunter’s tent overnight and didn’t leave again until daylight.

"An important part of scouting is outing, and we teach them how to prepare for that,” said David Kirk, director of Field Service for the Boy Scout Grand Teton Council.

"And then you just pray that all the things he learned with scouting that he'll remember, that he'll stay calm and be able to just sit tight and kind of do survival mode until somebody finds him,” said Lish.

When Logan arrived to his family he told his mom it was all no big deal because he had what he needed.