Mission Report

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 […]

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

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

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

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

From July 23rd through July 27th the Brigade assisted the New Mexico Emergency Management and the National Guard in searching for a person missing in flooding in Tecolote Canyon from the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar. Over those days five Brigade members at different times provided support for canine teams from Mountain Canine Corp, assisted

A little before 1000 on July 19th the brigade was called to respond for a missing subject along the Rio Grande near Pilar. Six individuals from the Brigade formed the initial response, one as ordering manager, two filling support functions at incident base, and three ground pounders. A fourth ground pounder from the Brigade joined

July 14th 05:38 the Incident Commander was looking for 4×4’s and ground teams to assist a lost hiker on the Continental Divide Trail north of Ghost Ranch. We actually had exact coordinates of the subjects location as she was able to make calls and was able to relay her coordinates. One of New Mexico SAR’s

Sunday morning, June 12, at 5:20 am came the call from our leader (code name GearHead)… Search for a hiker, male, age 68, around Cerro Montoso, a peak about half between Taos and Tres Piedres, missing from early afternoon the day before. 8 Brigadiers answered that call on this hot and blistering day– actually 7

May 26 2022 around 8:30 in the morning our local Incident Commander calls asking for a couple of 4×4 teams to retrieve a woman stranded in a stuck vehicle outside Tres Piedras. She had cell phone service and from her cell phone and OnStar we had her exact coordinates. So easy – just send in