Matt Holmes has started a yearly tradition for the Brigade where we do a nighttime climb up Pajarito Ski Hill. The climb is approximately 1,000 feet up over a mile or so. This year we did the climb on February 2nd. Ten members came out to climb using snowshoes, skinned skis, micro spikes and even
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At 0023 on the morning of Sunday, January 29th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in the second operational period of a mission in the Arroyo Hondo area, reporting to incident base at 0900. A 75 year old male had been reported missing. With nighttime temperatures well
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Mission 83 will turn out to be epic for a couple of reasons – long hikes and a Blackhawk helicopter rescue! The mission starts with a text from our Team Leader at 02:07 hours on September 8th 2022. Two Brigade ground pounders head out to incident base at Cabresto Lake outside of Questa. A third
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Mission 82 started with a text from our Team Leader on September 5th at 16:30 asking for ground pounders for a missing 74 year old female hiker on the Winsor trail in the Pecos Wilderness. Five Brigade members responded. Three ground pounders and two for Incident Base – the Incident Commander and a communications person.
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August 13th 14:22 our Team Leader sends a text indicating we have a mission in Caballo Canyon just north of Los Alamos requesting 4×4’s and ground pounders. Six Brigade members meet shortly there after at CD-1 along with the Incident Commander. We learn the mission is for a hiker that is struggling with rough terrain
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Three Brigade members participated in this years Los Alamos Fair and Rodeo Parade. We entered the LaFrance, the GMC and our Rescue unit. All three made it to the parade, through the parade and back home. Getting to and from is not always a given with such old vehicles. Our 1921 LaFrance rolls by the
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August 5th we are back in the Pecos Wilderness. Given that the subjects left from Nambe Lake in a storm there was a good chance they missed the Windsor trail and continued down the Nambe Drainage. So, our mission, that included five members of the Brigade, was to hike up the Nambe Drainage from the
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As this was a nighttime mission I didn’t think to take any pictures. Around 19:30 on August 1st we received the call looking for ground pounders to search for a missing female mushroom hunter near Hopewell Lake. Four members of the Brigade headed out. Three to do ground search and one to run the show
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A little after 0600 on the morning of July 31st the brigade received a call to participate in a search for a pair of overdue hikers in the Windsor trail area. Four brigade members responded. Three ground-pounders gathered up their individual and team gear and headed out together. The fourth member is training to be
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Our July 28th mission was for a missing female hiker on the Manzanita Trail. The trailhead for this trail is off the road to the Taos Ski Valley. One Brigade person went as support for Mountain Canine Corp air scent dog and another Brigade person was working Incident Base. The mission was short as the
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