February 2026

An Evening in the Snow

Training Report by James Lee. Last night’s training at Pajarito Mountain included 6 brigadiers. Two were on snowshoes (personal) and the rest were on skis. We started from the parking lot towards the bottom of Mother lift and continued to the bottom of Breathless trail. We hiked up breathless to Road 0, followed road 0 […]

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Snow?!!!

4:00 pm February 3, a perfect time for a mission as brigadiers are just wrapping up work, a call comes. A hiker on Big Tesuque has got stuck waist-deep in snow and can’t get out! Despite having a mission the night before/morning of, 4 brigadiers still race to assemble and set out to meet with

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Trusting the Tracks: A Midnight Save in the Sagebrush

Date: February 2, 2026 Location: Well Outside Ojo Caliente Mission: NMSPR2601337-OP1 The call came in at 21:55: an elder with dementia had walked away from her home. With temperatures hovering in the low 20s and her GPS tracker battery dead, every minute was critical. However, even the best teams face friction. Due to a coordinate entry error, our

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