At 15:32 on Saturday, October 26th the team receives the callout for a fallen hiker near Abiquiu Lake and hands are needed for a litter haul. We would later learn the fall occurred near the top of Cerro Pedernal peak. After mustering at CD-1 we drove to IB and decided we could four wheel it […]
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Just before 2200 on the evening of Sunday, October13th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in a search for a missing person in the Rancho de Taos area. The missing individual had not been seen since mid-morning that day and her car was located in the late
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At the end of May a handful of Brigade members attended ESCAPE (ESCAPE – NMSARC)- the annual New Mexico Search and Rescue Conference. Some of use even helped run the show. The two-and-a-half-day conference covered significant ground training wise. Classes included discussions on gear, how to use CalTopo, how agencies use cellphone forensics and satellite
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On a cold, blustery day the team received the WhatsApp callout for a training mission. The first clue of the adventure we were heading into was on the way to Incident Base. A large Ponderosa Pine tree had blown over and was partially blocking the road. Los Alamos police, including one of own members, was
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January 29th eleven Brigade members participated in what has become an annual tradition – Climb the Pajarito Mountain Ski Hill at night. The climb gains about 1,000 feet over about a mile. The training session is a good way for members to test out winter gear, endurance and traveling at night.
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The Brigaded ended 2023 and started 2024 with a series of hurry up then standdown missions. Mission 121 on November 18th 2023 was for an injured hunter near Hopewell Lake. Another team managed to bring the hunter out before Brigade teams arrived at IB. Mission 123 on November 29th found the Brigade mustering for an
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At 2119 on the evening of Wednesday, November 15th, the brigade SAR team leader sent out a request for team members to participate in a search for an overdue day hiker in the Penasco area. This was clearly a potentially dangerous situation for the subject as the local temperature was expected to drop to 25F
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At 11:49pm on Wednesday October 4th, LAAFB was called out for a lost day hiker in Carson National Forest near the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). This was our second such mission that. Four members of LAAFB were able to respond, including one who would serve as Incident Commander (IC) and another who would help operate
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Every quarter the Brigade holds a large training session, or mock search, where we attempt to duplicate the conditions of a real mission. Quarterly gives us the opportunity to practice in all four seasons. For our summer training the callout text came in at 19:09 September 30th 2023 requesting members to report to Incident Base
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At 8:20pm on Monday October 2nd, an Incident Commander (IC) who is also an LAAFB member called one of our SAR Team Leaders to initiate a small-team response for a lost hiker. Earlier on Monday, a day hiker became separated from their group deep in the Carson National Forest north of El Rito, NM. Fortunately,
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