Wheeler Crest Search and Recovery

On Tuesday, August 20, at around 22:30, SAR teams and Inyo County Sheriff’s Deputies began searching for an experienced local hiker and former team member who had not returned from a day hike to Wheeler Peak. The night searchers cleared the trail to Tamarack Lakes and the Sand Canyon road from Swall Meadows to Tamarack […]

Outpost Camp Search and Evacuation

At around 22:30 on 08/13/13, members of Inyo SAR were called out for a potential case of altitude sickness near the Outpost Camp on the South Fork Mt. Whitney trail. The reporting party was a family member at the trailhead, and further information quickly revealed that the subject was also missing. Despite the complexity of […]

Altitude Sickness at Chickenfoot Lake

The call from the Sheriff coordinator came at 15:30 on August 11, just as a car of SAR ladies hit 395, returning from a relaxing weekend backpacking trip out of Rock Creek. Just over two miles up the Rock Creek trail, a 50-year-old male had been unable to get out of his tent all day, […]

Near-Fatal Climbing Accident on Mt. Emerson

On Saturday, July 6, a 42-year-old female climber was seriously injured while descending the southeast face of Mt. Emerson, a peak in the Sierra Nevada above North Lake, west of Bishop. Sometime around 1 p.m., the climber fell approximately one hundred feet while she was rappelling off the route; likely due to an anchor failure. […]

Broken ankle on Mt. Whitney Trail

Inyo County Search and Rescue received a call Sunday June 30th around 12:30. The 57 year old female patient slipped on wet rocks while filling her water bottle in the stream. She heard a crunch and pain began radiating from the lateral side of her right leg. She suspected a broken ankle. She and her […]