SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Incline Village area to search for a subject that contacted her father in Minnesota, saying she became lost while mountain biking and it was now dark. Her phone then went dead. The father contacted Washoe County, saying she was new to the area and lived in Incline Village. Deputies and RAVEN checked the usual mountain bike trailheads in the area, but her vehicle was not located. As teams arrived at staging at Sheeps Flat, information came from a friend that she might have been headed to the area of Mount Watson, which is NW of Tahoe City. Not long after that, a Placer County Deputy located the subject’s vehicle in that area. Our assets were offered to Placer County, and they requested that we go to their staging location at the Tahoe Nordic Center. As teams drove to that location, RAVEN spotted the subject next to a fire, approximately one mile from where the Deputies vehicle was able to get to, but had to stop due to a tree across the trail. When teams arrived at staging, it was decided to send four SVU side x sides to the location, take two Tahoe Nordic SAR personnel to the subject, then transport everyone out. Teams left the staging area, guided by a Placer County Deputy. The plan changed en route, and the Tahoe Nordic SAR personnel were not taken in, but the side x sides did locate the Deputy and subject, and they were transported back to the Deputy’s vehicle.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR began responding to the Jumbo Grade Trailhead in Washoe Valley to locate a reported injured ATV rider. Before SAR assets arrived on scene, TMFPD personnel located the subject, who had only minor scratches and scrapes. They transported the subject to staging and SAR response was cancelled.

SAR Staff and the Hasty Team assisted Lander County SAR and SO Deputies in locating and removing a vehicle from Miller’s Pit – an abandoned open-pit mine that is now full of water.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Kings Row entrance to Peavine to locate a stuck vehicle with two occupants. They had reported that they had gone five miles from the Leadership Way entrance, so it was assumed that they were near the peak of Peavine. When coordinates were plotted, it placed them just west of the Kings Row entrance to Peavine, a hundred yards north of houses in the area. SAR teams quickly located the subjects (they could be seen from staging) and gave verbal instructions as to which way to turn their wheels to become unstuck.

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Micheal Thompson Trailhead on the report of a subject that had fallen and injured their wrist. REMSA medics were first on scene, which was at the upper part of the trail, and stabilized the subject. Two SAR foot teams made contact with the group as they were walking down the trail, VERY slowly. It was taking an abnormally long time to get down to staging, so a SVU side x side was sent in as far as ATV’s can get – about 1/3 of a mile, to meet the patient and expedite the process. The subject and one medic were transported to a waiting ambulance.