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2018 Year End Review and Rescue Report 2018 END-OF-YEAR REVIEW & RESCUE REPORT © CHRIS LEIGH www.tetoncountysar.org TCSAR RESCUE REPORT - 1 FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS TCSO SAR ADVISORS AND STAFF DEAR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS MISSY FALCEY, PRESIDENT CODY LOCKHART, CHIEF ADVISOR NED JANNOTTA, VICE PRESIDENT AJ WHEELER, M.D., MEDICAL ADVISOR Teton County boasts some of the most magnificent and challenging terrain BILL HOGLUND, TREASURER PHIL “FLIP” TUCKER, LOGISTICS ADVISOR in the country and our community members take full advantage of this, JESSE STOVER, SECRETARY ALEX NORTON, PLANNING ADVISOR which is awesome and inspiring. With our extensive backcountry use comes LESLIE MATTSON CHRIS LEIGH, MEMBERSHIP ADVISOR great responsibility for both the backcountry user and those charged with rescuing them. RYAN COOMBS ANTHONY STEVENS, TRAINING ADVISOR CLAY GEITTMANN JESSICA KING, TCSO SAR SUPERVISOR Wyoming State Statute 18-3-609 (a) (iii) states: “Each county sheriff shall be the official responsible for coordination of all search and rescue operations RICH SUGDEN MATT CARR, TCSO SHERIFF-ELECT within his jurisdiction.” How each county sheriff interprets this statute is LIZ BRIMMER up to him/her. As the Teton County sheriff-elect, I bring this up because FOUNDATION STAFF I feel strongly that Teton County leads the country in its interpretation of DAVID LANDES coordination of search and rescue operations. DON WATKINS STEPHANIE THOMAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SCOTT GUENTHER, GTNP LIAISON AMY GOLIGHTLY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Gone are the days of wrangling up a few willing deputies to drag someone CASEY LEWIS, SAR TEAM & DONOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR out of the backcountry. Under the leadership of Sheriff Jim Whalen, Teton JESSICA KING, TCSO SAR SUPERVISOR County has built one of the best possible responses to search and rescue CODY LOCKHART, TCSAR ADVISOR LIAISON incidents in the country. That response lies fully and completely with the incredible volunteers that make up the Teton County Search and Rescue team. Our volunteers give so much time and effort to being highly trained and mission ready. I would remiss if I did not restate the value that TCSAR members bring to our community. Aside from normal search and rescue efforts, TCSAR volunteers work closely with the TCSAR Foundation to provide outdoor education to our backcountry users through their Backcountry Zero initiative. FROM The future of Teton County Search and Rescue is clear: to excel at providing DECEMBER 1, 2017 - NOVEMBER 30, 2018 the best possible search and rescue response. It is my role as your newly elected Sheriff to support the Teton County Search and Rescue team in every TCSAR VOLUNTEERS SPENT endeavor. I’m honored to also be an operational member of the TCSAR team. Working with this amazing group is a lifelong dream and passion of mine. 10,872 HOURS It has also given me a unique perspective on how the Teton County Sheriff’s Office can best coordinate search and rescue operations. ON SAR RELATED ACTIVITIES I look forward to a fun and safe winter season. RESCUES = 4,779 HOURS Matt Carr TRAINING = 5,279 HOURS Teton County Sheriff-Elect COMMUNITY EVENTS = 814 HOURS 2 - TCSAR RESCUE REPORT TCSAR VOLUNTEER TEAM MEMBERS KC BESS TIM CIOCARLAN RYAN COMBS MICHAEL ESTES PHILLIP FOX ED FRIES ERIC HELGOTH TED KYLE CHRIS LEIGH ETHAN LOBDELL CHASE LOCKHART CODY LOCKHART RYAN MERTAUGH MIKE MOYER ALEX NORTON GALEN PARKE KEEGAN PFEIL JEN REDDY TERRI ROMANOWSKI ROBB SGROI SCOTT SHERVIN WILL SMITH JENNIFER SPARKS ALEX ST. CLAIR ANTHONY STEVENS CHRIS STIEHL STEPHANIE THOMAS PHIL (FLIP) TUCKER DOUG VAN HOUTEN CAROL VIAU DON WATKINS LIZZIE WATSON TCSAR EMPLOYEES AJ WHEELER JON WIEDIE JESSICA KING MATT CARR TCSO SAR SUPERVISOR TCSO SHERIFF-ELECT www.tetoncountysar.org TCSAR RESCUE REPORT - 3 INCIDENTS BY GENDER WINTER 2017/18 WINTER 10 YEAR AVG SUMMER 2018 SUMMER 10 YEAR AVG Female Female Undocumented Undocumented 16% 16% 13% 6% Female Female 23% 31% Male Male Male Male 63% 84% 84% 64% INCIDENTS BY ACTIVITY WINTER 2017/18 WINTER 10 YEAR AVG SUMMER 2018 SUMMER 10 YEAR AVG Other Caving 6% 5% Other 6% Other 14% Climbing 2% Other Skiing/ Paragliding 3% Hiking/ 28% Snowboarding Hiking/ Backpacking Backcountry Snowmobiling 13% Backpacking 35% Skiing & 44% 33% Watersports 10% Snowboarding Backcountry Mtn Biking 3% 36% Snowmobiling Skiing & 44% Snowboarding Mtn Biking 9% 62% Watersports 13% Horseback Riding Hunting 11% 16% Climbing 3% Horseback Riding 6% Hunting 6% 4 - TCSAR RESCUE REPORT Table Mountain and saw a man, believed to be approximately crash at the pinged location. GTNP recovered two bodies from Summer 2018 20-30 years old, in need of help because he was “out of it”. the wreckage. Reporting party stated that she did not believe him to have a –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– broken ankle. SAR team moved forward with the response in RESCUE REVIEW spite of fragmented information. The reporting party’s original RESCUE Dog Walker Injured Ankle, Hagan Trail call had reached Driggs Dispatch and they had sent a medic to DATE 06/10/2018 » JUNE the trailhead. At 1:55pm, IC received word that the man had TIME 12:40pm self-rescued and was in the care of the Driggs medic. Follow up DURATION 1 hour 20 minutes RESCUE Missing Person, Flat Creek Trailhead by the Teton County Sheriff Deputy indicated that the patient ATTENDEES 17 Undocumented DATE 06/01/2018 appeared to be intoxicated. 6% TIME 11:22am WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call for a possible broken –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DURATION 2 hours 53 minutes ankle on the Hagan Trail. Fire/EMS was already on scene and ATTENDEES 10 RESCUE Overturned Canoe in the Snake River requested a wheeled litter. SAR Team Members transported Female DATE 06/08/2018 the patient in a wheeled litter to the trailhead where they 31% WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call about a missing 19 TIME 7:33pm transferred the patient to a waiting ambulance. year old male, last seen near Flat Creek Trailhead. The Board DURATION 2 hours 37 minutes Male –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– of Advisors met at the hangar to plan a search of the area. Just ATTENDEES 20 63% after the board started planning, the missing male was located RESCUE Injured Leg, Darby Canyon alive and well in Teton Village. SAR Team Members were stood WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received word of an overturned DATE 06/14/2018 down. canoe just north of Astoria Hot Springs. The reporting TIME 1:14pm party reporting seeing a canoe flip at King’s Wave with one DURATION 3 hours 46 minutes –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– individual spotted clinging to the retaining wall on the east ATTENDEES 13 RESCUE Horseback Rider Fall, Granite Creek side of the river. An off-duty police officer was on scene within DATE 06/06/2018 two minutes of the call, trying to spot the victim. SAR Team WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call for an injured leg at TIME 1:32pm responded with two jet boats and a cataraft. The first jet boat Darby Canyon, 200ft from the entrance to the Wind Cave. DURATION 9 hours 28 minutes put in at Astoria to search up river and the second jet boat put Patient had fallen and slid on snow and hit a rock. SAR Teams ATTENDEES 20 in at Pritchard to search up river from there. A search down to headed out in two hasty teams to the field. SAR Team Members the county line was performed, but no victim spotted. Lincoln treated a laceration in the field and packed the patient out WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call about a 67 year old County dispatch was notified of Teton County search and in a wheeled litter to the trailhead where the patient was male who fell off a horse, located above Granite Creek, about rescue operations and to contact SAR if a canoe or individual(s) transported by ambulance. was located. No one was found needing help and the incident 1.5 miles west of Granite Hot Springs pool. SAR Team Members –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– were assembled, and IC sent out three hasty teams. After the was stood down. RESCUE Overdue Hikers, JHMR first hasty team reached the patient, a request for helicopter –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Other 14% assistance was made. IC coordinated with TipTop to send a DATE 06/25/2018 Climbing 2% helicopter to evacuate the patient. By 7:45pm the first hasty RESCUE Overdue Glider – 2 Persons TIME 9:03pm Paragliding 3% Hiking/ team was en-route with the patient to rendezvous with Medic DATE 06/09/2018 DURATION 12 hours 27 minutes Backpacking 20. The other two hasty teams hiked out. TIME 12:58pm ATTENDEES 15 35% DURATION 2 hours 17 minutes –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Watersports 10% ATTENDEES 15 WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call about a father and two sons overdue from the Rock Springs trail. SAR Team RESCUE Reported Ankle Injury, Table Mountain WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received word that a glider carrying 2 Members conducted a ground search in the Union Pass area, Mtn Biking 9% DATE 06/08/2018 people was overdue after departing from Driggs Airport. SAR up to the Gondola and back down and checked Fish Creek area TIME 1:33pm Team Members were sent to Teton Aviation (joining Dr. Rich for anyone coming out Jensen or Rock Springs Canyon. TCSO Horseback Riding DURATION 1 hour 6 minutes Sugden in his helicopter) and Helitack/Jackson Hole Airport. Dispatch attempted to ping phones, but no contact. SAR Team Hunting 11% 16% ATTENDEES 6 The Sheriff’s Office reported a ping from the missing aircraft Members reconvened at 5:00am and sent two hasty teams WHAT HAPPENED? SAR BOA received a call about a possible broken located in the Middle/South Teton area on the west side of the and coordinated with GTNP. Hikers were found and it was ankle near Table Mountain.
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