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Showing posts with label Winter Mission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Mission. Show all posts

A Happy SAR Ending for the New Year

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Wikimedia Commons / CC I know it's been a while since I've written anything here, and the reasons are many, including the fact t...

Overdue Hikers Found in Blue Ridge Area

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On Wednesday night, May 18th, I was at home, cozy in my PJs and down booties as the winter-like temps in Flagstaff continued to drop after a...

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...

A Snowy Search Near Munds Park

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"Everybody be quiet for a second!" I had to raise my voice over the sound of the wind and radio traffic, neither of which stopped ...

SAR and the Art of Hurry-Up-and-Waiting

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This had started out as Yavapai SAR's (YSAR's) mission, since the search area was mostly in their county. But when a night and most ...

A Severe Out-Of-Bounds Injury

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He's an experienced backcountry snowboarder. In fact, he's a snowboard instructor. And he did have one of the free winter backcount...

What Were They Thinking?

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Okay. I'm usually not critical of the people rescued by our SAR team... at least not publicly. I mean, we all make mistakes. And even th...

Out-Of-Bounders Beware

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It's nearly two a.m., and I'm now back at Incident Command, inside the Agassiz Lodge at Snowbowl, warming up and resting a bit bef...

A Day At Home? We'll See!

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It's 10 a.m. on Sunday, and I'm warm and toasty with my warm and toasty dog, a mug of hot cocoa, and fleece from head to toe as I wa...

Stranded

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Okay, now I don't feel so bad about missing Monday night's mission during the blizzard. I just finished 24 hours of SAR time in two...

Snowed In

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I don't like not responding to a SAR call. It bothers me, and I feel like I should be out there helping instead of staying comfortable ...

No Map, No Clue

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  It's 10am, and my face is just about thawed out. But when I got off that machine at 5:00 this morning, I couldn't feel my nose, an...

A Wood-Cutting Outing Gone Bad

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I don't think I'll ever be completely comfortable around helicopters. And maybe that's not a bad thing, really. I mean, you don...

Putting SAR Skills to the Test

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  Tracking was something I first learned during Basic SAR Academy, and I've practiced those skills time and again during previous missio...

Where is Mark?

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That's the question many people have been asking for the past 10 days. It's the question that's kept me up at night even when I...

48 Hours and Counting

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This is an ongoing mission, from which I just returned after 25 hours in the field. I arrived on Saturday, January 3, as several of my teamm...

Same Subject, Different Day

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Déjà vu set in—see Once Was Not Enough from 3/31—as I listened to our coordinator's message even before my pager had finished playing ...

But the Volvo Wasn't so Lucky

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It was mesmerizing, the falling snow coming right at us, illuminated by the snowcat's bright headlights. This was my first mission in t...

A First Snow's Mission

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It's still Sunday. I got home from the "Drunk on Devil's Head" mission at 4:30 this morning. At five-something this aftern...

Searching for a Man and His Horse

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If this call-out is for another out-of-bounds snowboarder, I'm not sure if I'll respond. It's after dark as usual, and not only ...