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Showing posts with label Technical Rescue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technical Rescue. Show all posts

Climb On!

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Climb on. Okay... I can do that. Sort of. I did a little of this (once) with the team at the Mt. Elden climbing area and got, oh, maybe 1...

SAR While I Was Away

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While I know our SAR coordinator and assistant coordinators have been plenty hard at work, in part with calls that ended up being resolved b...

A Joint Technical Rescue Training with Border Patrol

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That was fun! And it was a challenging exercise, too. Members of Borstar (which stands for Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Re...

A Happy Surprise in Waterholes Canyon

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Once upon a time, there was a man in a canyon. Well, not just in a canyon, stuck in a canyon. This was a very deep and narrow canyon, an...

Recent SAR Activity

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I haven't posted in awhile, but that's not for lack of SAR activity. Although it's been slower than last year at this time when ...

An Extreme, Multi-Agency Technical Rescue

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Photo courtesy of R. Marlatt First an overview and then some personal comments about this mission, which may be one of the most technical...

Way Over The Edge -- A Technical Recovery Mission

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Horseshoe Bend (Colorado River) -- the site of our mission Do you know how heavy 900 feet of half-inch rope is? Neither do I, exactly. At...

SAR Business is Picking Up

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Compared to past winters since I've been on the Coconino County Sheriff's Search and Rescue (Coco SAR) team, this last one was relat...

A Fallen Climber in Jack's Canyon

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I had just gotten home when the call came for a technical rescue in Jack's Canyon (pictured above), about 30 miles from Winslow, AZ....

Buried Alive on Purpose (Me, That Is)

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I suppose if you have to get buried alive, it's best if it's done by fellow SAR members who will also dig you out. When my cell ph...

I'm Not Missing! (And a Ropes That Rescue Class)

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I'm still an addicted... uh, dedicated... SAR member. It's just been a while since I've posted and just as long since I've b...

What a Strange Mission

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Things changing on a dime during a SAR mission isn't anything unusual; situations are often dynamic, and we're accustomed to alterin...

A Technical Rescue in Waterholes Canyon

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Twelve of us, including nine technical rescue team members, a lieutenant, and two deputies, stood near the rim of Waterholes Canyon, watchin...