Yearly Archives: 2016

2/8/2016 – Missing Kayaker

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Popcorn Beach area of Pyramid Lake to search for a fisherman who was last seen at approximately 1330hrs., paddling towards the inlet of the Truckee River. Ground teams, RAVEN, and both M10 and M20 searched the the area of the bay where Popcorn Beach is located with no results. The search was suspended for the night.

2/8/2016 – Missing Snowboarder

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, SVU, and WCSAR responded to both the Hibbits Trail area and Davis Creek Park to search for a snowboarder who had skied out of bounds by accident from the Mt. Rose Ski Resort – Slide side. Teams were deployed from the Hibbits Trail area, and with RAVEN’s assistance, located the subject relatively quickly. She was brought out by a tracked ATV to a waiting vehicle and transported to the staging area near the Reindeer Lodge.

2/3/2016 – Stuck Subjects near Pinehaven

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the end of Pinehaven Rd. to locate two subjects that were in a stuck vehicle, along with a RPD vehicle that had become stuck while looking for them. Both vehicles were located about a mile from staging, but in two different areas. While an SVU team transported the original subjects out to staging, WCSAR and Hasty assisted the RPD vehicle out of it’s situation and back to staging.

2/3/2016 – Stuck Subjects

SAR Staff, SVU, and WCSAR traveled to an area northwest of Gerlach to locate two stuck subjects. The report came in that the subjects were stuck in deep snow, so it was decided to take 4×4 SAR vehicles and the snowcat as a backup asset. Coordinates were provided, which showed them being about 15 miles from SR447 on the Wall Canyon Reservoir Rd. The 4×4 SAR vehicles located them at the coordinates, and quickly got them out of their predicament. The area really did not have much snow to speak of, but their vehicle had found an area where snow had filled in a slight depression in the road. They were escorted safely back to Gerlach.

1/30/2016 – Lost Snowboarders

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to an area below the Reindeer Lodge, as well as Davis Creek Park to search for two snowboarders who had gone out of bounds at the Mt. Rose Ski area, and got lost. Cell phone pings placed them between Winters Creek and Davis Creek Park in an area of high avalanche danger. Foot teams, coming in from an area south of the Reindeer Lodge, were able to locate the subjects and safely guide them down to Davis Creek Park.