Mission Report

Mission Report by Katie Mummah On Tuesday, March 24 an evening call came in for a hiker with an injured leg on a bluff south of Jemez Springs. Three of us Brigadiers responded in the first wave and two came in a slow response.  We arrived at incident base to find a joint command. In […]

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

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

Date: January 21, 2026  Location: NW of Las Vegas, NM (FR 156) The call came in at the dark hour of 5:18 AM. A woman, out hunting for firewood the previous evening with her group, had become separated while attempting to head back to her vehicle with her dog. Due to a series of unfortunate events waylaying

Windsor Trail near Tesuque VillageNovember 13, 2025, 1:26 a.m. The call came in just after 1:00 a.m.: an elderly local hiker, underprepared for the night, lost somewhere along the Windsor Trail. November may have been running warm, but it was still November. The subject carried water, but no food, and only a light jacket. At

Just after midnight on Saturday, July 6th, the Brigade received a request for ground teams to help locate a young woman overdue from a day hike to Hidden Lake in the Pecos Wilderness. Four Brigade members responded and arrived at incident base a couple of hours later. Around the same time, four members from the

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

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