12/16/2018 – Overdue Hunters

SAR Staff, Air Squadron, SVU, and WCSAR responded to a staging location in Gerlach to search for three overdue hunters somewhere in the Buffalo Meadows Rd/Painters Flat area. Teams were entering the area from three different routes, while the Air Squadron searched from above. Due to weather and daylight, the Air Squadron had to suspend their searching, but the ground teams continued. Just before darkness, one of the ground teams encountered the subjects, along with two other private vehicles that had been searching since this morning, coming down Buffalo Meadows Rd. The overdue subjects had become stuck in an iced-over section of a road where a spring feeds the area. All subjects were accounted for. SAR teams returned to Gerlach for debrief.