On Friday, April 18th at 7:30pm Inyo SAR members received notice of a young woman trapped on a cliff in Death Valley National Park’s Golden Canyon.  Golden Canyon is best known for its appearance in Star Wars when R2D2 gets ambushed by Jawa.  In fact, it appears that we used the very same narrow corridor/gully […]

Late afternoon on Monday, Feb. 25, the team received a call out for an injured 50 year old female descending from the Mountaineer’s Route on MT Whitney. She and her guided party were at Iceberg Lake and descending to their camp at around 11,800 ft. Reporting party noted that she had been hit by a […]

On January 27, 2014 around 20:00, a small group of 3 Inyo SAR team members and the SAR Coordinator assembled at the Posse Hut to assist the subject down from White Mountain Road. The subject had been biking from Badwater Basin (-282 ft) in an attempt to reach the summit of White Mountain (14,252 ft) […]

Despite the evening callout, most members were relieved to find out that it was a rare daytime mission for the next morning.  Team members were to assemble at the Posse Hut at 0700 on January 11 and to be prepared for a search for a missing 18 year old male last seen two days previously […]