News and Announcements

3/25/2018 – Lost Diamond Peak Snowboarder

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, and WCSAR responded to the Diamond Peak Ski Resort to assist resort personnel with a lost snowboarder who had gone out of bounds into the Mill Creek Drainage area. A back-country ski team was transported to the ridgeline above the canyon to meet up with two ski patrol personnel who had located the subject. All teams and the subject exited at Peace Pipe Lane.

3/22/2018 – Diamond Peak Lost Skier

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to Diamond Peak to assist Diamond Peak Ski Patrol in locating a skier who went out of bounds and was lost. A two man ski patrol team from the ski resort located the subject, but was having a difficult time in finding a workable route to extract the subject from the area. A four man SAR team was transported to the ridge above the subject by ski resort snowcats, and they were able to catch up with the group below them. The SAR team and ski patrol were able to slowly guide the subject down Mill Creek Canyon to an extraction point on Peace Pipe Lane where SAR vehicles met them. All searchers and the subject were then transported back to staging.

3/22/2018 – Mt. Rose Highway Avalanche

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to an initial staging location at the NDF fire station on the Mt. Rose Highway to deploy probe teams to an avalanche that covered a portion of the highway near the summit. Before SAR teams reached the avalanche site, Mt. Rose Ski Patrol personnel probed the area with nothing located.

3/20/2018 – Lost Snowshoers

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to an initial staging location at the NDF station on the Mt. Rose Highway to search for two lost snowshoers in the Chickadee Ridge area of the Tahoe Meadows. Teams were sent up to a secondary staging location at the south end of the Tahoe Meadows, and using a cell phone ping, were able to locate the subjects and guide them to the highway where they were checked by NLTFPD medics. The weather was initially very foggy, then turned into a light snow.

3/20/2018 – Evidence Search

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR assisted WCSO Detectives with an evidence search related to a body that was found in a burned vehicle on American Flat Road.