SAR.jlehman.ORG: Archive

IESARC meeting tonight. Kinsey and Lehman are going. Anybody else?

Sep 17th

PVS, BRT, and Land Nav 9/12/2009

The initial plan for the weekend was to complete our Personal Vertical Skills (PVS) and Basic Rope Technician (BRT) check-offs on Saturday and complete a land navigation exercise on Sunday. We thought that we were going to have additional SAR members from other teams coming to the check-off so we rigged a boat-load of ropes. When those folks didn’t arrive, we were able to check-off our team...

Sep 14th

Cave Team Training: PVS check-offs and BRT check-offs Saturday. Land nav Sunday. 32.943977°/-117.107989°

Sep 12th

Training and a Rescue near San Jacinto →

Aug 17th

Cave Team & San Jacinto Rangers completed hike out of dehydrated hiker at approximately 1835 hrs.

Aug 16th

Cave Team working rescue on Cactus to Clouds trail. Dehydrated hiker. Happened to be training in the area. RMRU notified.

Aug 16th

Watch

20 students spent the weekend with an introduction to cave rescue.

Jul 22nd

A Few Photos From the OCR

Jul 21st

Doing the Turtle http://post.ly/1Nkt

Jul 19th

Not Really an Emergency →

There have been a couple of these incidents where folks activate their PLB in situations that are inconvenient, but not life-threatening. I wonder if this behavior will continue with the introduction of cheaper PLB devices.

Jul 10th

Orientation to Cave Rescue course still has a few spots. Visit www.caverescue.net for info.

Jul 10th

Watch

12 students spent 7 days studying the art of clean rigging.

Jul 7th

Cave Team requested to assist in litter carry from hut on Baldy. JL

Jun 14th

Crevasse 5:1 http://post.ly/q3f

Jun 14th

Orientation to Cave Rescue July 18-19 http://post.ly/p7Y

Jun 12th

Cave Team sending 2 students to Ropes that Rescue class tomorrow.

Jun 12th

Cave Team & WV SAR successfully passed MRA Tech Rope re-cert today. JL

May 17th

News story on today’s Lytle Creek search can be found at http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_12317828

May 7th

The Technical Rescue Basics Course April-May 2009

I serve as an instructor for the Technical Rescue Basics Course (TRBC) for San Bernardino County Sheriff’s SAR. For the past two weekends (including 6pm-10pm on Fridays) a number of students took the first step in gaining proficiency in technical rope rescue. The first weekend is a combination of classroom and practical skills, while the second weekend is spent in the field using the skills....

May 4th

Cave Team training at Keller Peak today. Rope rescue. JL

Apr 19th

The Search for Amber Dubois

Amber Dubois has been missing for 30 days. San Bernardino County SAR was called to assist in the search of an area in Escondido near Mesa Rock Rd and Woodland Heights Rd. In addition to covering our area, we were also called to check a storm drain without a grating. Members of West Valley SAR helped us pull the manhole cover. View Larger Map

Mar 16th

Cave Team checked out from SD Co. Search at 1640 hrs. JL

Mar 16th

Cave Team (Team 94) in search area at 11 S 0488201/3670766 JL

Mar 15th

Cave Team called for mutual aid search in SD Co. JL

Mar 15th

Cave Team and West Valley SAR Complete MRA Snow...

The Cave and Technical Rescue Team as well as West Valley SAR successfully completed their MRA snow and ice re-certification on March 7 in Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe, CA. The re-certification consisted of two parts. In the first part teams were required to proceed to a snow slope with a set of coordinates to find their patient. Once the patient was located he/she was packaged and...

Mar 11th

Cave Team made it to Bishop last night. Camped, and now heading to S.O. JL

Mar 8th

Cave Team passed MRA snow and ice re-cert today at Squaw Valley in Tahoe. JL

Mar 8th

The Cal. MRA re-cert scheduled in Tahoe may be cancelled. They’re evaluating snow tomorrow am. JL

Mar 5th

Cave Team doing photos at HQ then training in Camp Creek today. JL

Feb 28th

Daniel Travesio Found After Cold Night Out

It all started with a bum shoulder. Ironically the shoulder was injured during a grueling litter carry in January when a hiker fell and injured his ankle above the Sierra Hut on Baldy. My injured shoulder, and the voice of my physical therapist telling me to lay off carrying a pack for a while, kept me out of the field on Saturday and in the command post. My compatriots in West Valley SAR are...

Feb 22nd

Cave Team working Joe Elliott down Day Cyn. Looking for LZ for extraction. JL

Feb 22nd

Missing 19 Year Old Hiker

Daniel Travesio was last seen hiking in the Day Canyon area yesterday. Last night he made a phone call to his mother saying he was lost. Teams are in the field in the Day Creek, Smith Ridge, Bull Canyon, Fan Canyon, and Deer Canyon areas. Some clues have been found. JL

Feb 21st

Cave Team responding to Baldy west-valley search. JL

Feb 21st

Cave Team responding to evidence search tomorrow am. JL

Feb 20th

Missing Skier Found on Summit of Mt. Baldy

Four teams from West Valley SAR and Sierra Madre SAR searched through the night for a missing skier on Mt. Baldy. Early this morning, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Aviation found the missing person on the summit of Mt. Baldy. The missing person suffered from frostbite, but was otherwise healthy. View Larger Map

Feb 12th

Cave Team responding tonight and in morning for Baldy search. JL

Feb 12th

Cave Team responding to missing 75 year old male in Hesperia. JL

Feb 3rd

Watch

I spent the weekend with the Basic Mountaineering Class re-certifying my alpine skills. We spent the morning doing ice-axe arrests, roped travel, and avalanche beacon searching.

Jan 31st

Just Got the GPS Track of Our "Missing" Hiker

Below is the track of our “missing” hiker (blue) and the track of my team mate, Dave Bullock. View Larger Map

Jan 13th

A Busy SAR Day

Other than our Mountain Rescue Association certification, we don’t often get to manage searches as a team. We participate in plenty, and even help manage them, but since we are not responsible for a region in the county, we are never the first team called for a search within the county. Success in a wilderness search is almost entirely dependent upon the management of the search. Using...

Jan 11th

Parties located on Baldy. Cave Team cancelled. JL

Jan 11th

Cave Team on standby for possible search on Baldy. JL

Jan 11th

Cave Team training at Mormon Rocks in the Cajon Pass. Search scenario. JL

Jan 11th

SD Co. search call is canceled. Subject located.

Jan 10th

The Cave Rescue Team has been requested for a mutual aid search in San Diego County. Meeting at CP at 0600.

Jan 10th

The Rescue of Steven Yang

The Cave & Technical Rescue Team got the call to assist West Valley SAR at approximately 2100 hrs on Sunday, January 4. There was an injured hiker at the Sierra Hut that needed to be evacuated via litter carry. My teammates arrived on scene to find one team with the hiker, and one team heading up the trail. With members of San Bernardino Mountain SAR, Wrightwood, and Valley of the Falls...

Jan 6th

Callout for Rescue of Injured Hiker on Baldy

Cave Team responding to a rescue of a 50 yearl old injured hiker from Sierra Hut on Baldy. JL

Jan 5th

CRMRA Meeting

Cave Team hosting the California Region of the MRA quarterly meeting today at sheriff’s HQ. JL

Jan 3rd

Missing 20 Year Old Male in Sugarloaf (Big Bear...

Cancel call for missing 20 year old male in Sugarloaf area JL

Jan 1st