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2020 END-OF-YEAR REVIEW + RESCUE REPORT www.tetoncountysar.org TCSAR RESCUE REPORT - 1 TCSO SAR ADVISORS AND STAFF FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS DEAR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS CODY LOCKHART, CHIEF ADVISOR NED JANNOTTA, PRESIDENT AJ WHEELER, M.D., MEDICAL ADVISOR JESSE STOVER, VICE PRESIDENT TCSAR VOLUNTEER TEAM MEMBERS We begin this Rescue Report with a humbled !ank You. Our DOUG VAN HOUTEN, LOGISTICS ADVISOR DAVID LANDES, TREASURER team, through everything in 2020, has never felt more supported and cared for as they do right now. Our community means GALEN PARKE, PLANNING ADVISOR LESLIE MATTSON, SECRETARY everything to us and your support keeps us going financially, KC BESS, MEMBERSHIP ADVISOR HUGH O’HALLORAN, EXEC. MEMBER AT LARGE physically and mentally. !ank you for every bit you’ve been able to do this past 12 months to keep us geared up, mentally ANTHONY STEVENS, TRAINING ADVISOR CLAY GEITTMANN fit, laughing, and trained to respond to community members in JESSICA KING, TCSO SAR SUPERVISOR JENNIFER SPARKS need. MATT CARR, TCSO SHERIFF DON WATKINS !e pandemic has certainly taken a toll on many people near and TOM CHAPMAN KC BESS TIM CIOCARLAN RYAN COMBS MICHAEL ESTES PHILLIP FOX ED FRIES ERIC HELGOTH TED KYLE far. We feel incredibly fortunate and proud to be part of a first- FOUNDATION STAFF HADLEY HAMMER responder team at this time. !e volunteers’ collective ability to STEPHANIE THOMAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR be prepared during these challenging times can’t be overstated SARA ADAMSON all the while dealing with unknowns at work, stress of family CASEY LEWIS, DONOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR ROBERT KOPP life and worrying about loved ones at a distance. It’s also been MATT HANSEN, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR SCOTT GUENTHER, GTNP LIAISON challenging to stay connected as a team when volunteer dinners, LIZ KING, PREVENTATIVE SAR MANAGER JESSICA KING, TCSO SAR LIAISON backyard BBQ’s and team trainings have been dismantled or CHRIS LEIGH ETHAN LOBDELL CHASE LOCKHART CODY LOCKHART RYAN MERTAUGH MIKE MOYER ALEX NORTON GALEN PARKE delayed. But this team continues to be there for its members, CARYN FLANAGAN, DIRECT SUPPORT COORDINATOR CODY LOCKHART, TCSAR ADVISOR LIAISON creating bonds that can transcend our new normal. You’ll see in this End-of-Year Review and Rescue Report that since June 1 we’ve received 45 calls for service, with 25 of those calls resulting in active rescues. More than half of those were handled by our new RZR and trusty wheeled litter, often hand in hand. It’s great to see that at a time when technology and FROM KEEGAN PFEIL JEN REDDY TERRI ROMANOWSKI ROBB SGROI SCOTT SHERVIN WILL SMITH JENNIFER SPARKS ALEX ST. CLAIR speed are often the go-to that rescuing still needs basic tools like wheels, litters and boots on the ground to get the job done DECEMBER 1, 2019 - NOVEMBER 30, 2020 efficiently. TCSAR VOLUNTEERS SPENT Here’s to a safe, healthy and hopefully adventurous winter season. 8,129 HOURS ON SAR-RELATED ACTIVITIES ANTHONY STEVENS CHRIS STIEHL STEPHANIE THOMAS PHIL (FLIP) TUCKER DOUG VAN HOUTEN CAROL VIAU DON WATKINS LIZZIE WATSON Matt Carr, TCSO Sheriff, TCSAR Volunteer #22-1 and RESCUES = 3,355 HOURS Stephanie !omas, TCSAR EMPLOYEES TCSARF Executive Director, TCSAR Volunteer #75 TRAINING = 4,539 HOURS AJ WHEELER JON WIEDIE JESSICA KING MATT CARR COMMUNITY EVENTS = 235 HOURS TCSO SAR SUPERVISOR TCSO SHERIFF 2 - TCSAR RESCUE REPORT www.tetoncountysar.org TCSAR RESCUE REPORT - 3 PERSON HOURS 19.5 who were overdue after attempting to hike from Jenny Lake to Summer 2020 Teton Canyon in one day. !e call initially went to Grand Teton INCIDENTS BY GENDER WHAT HAPPENED? !e Board of Advisors was paged after a National Park, but was transferred to TCSAR after it became mountain biker had suffered a spinal injury after crashing apparent that the hikers had left the park boundary. With RESCUE REVIEW his mountain bike on the Fuzzy Bunny trail near Teton Pass. freezing temperatures and snow falling at 9,000 feet, there was WINTER 2019/20 WINTER 10-YEAR AVG SUMMER 2020 SUMMER 10-YEAR AVG Two TCSAR volunteers and EMS medics carried the man on a a concern that the hikers were not prepared to spend the night Unreported in the backcountry. As the team was getting ready to depart 6% » JUNE backboard from the accident site to a waiting ambulance. No further TCSAR resources were necessary. the hangar, the subjects had made it out of Teton Canyon, and RESCUE Lost Hiker up Adams Canyon the team stood down. Unreported –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Unreported 10% DATE 6/1/2020 12% Unreported TIME 7:56 p.m. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 17% RESCUE Injured Mountain Biker in Wilson Canyon DURATION 1 hour, 7 minutes DATE 6/22/2020 ATTENDEES 5 team members TIME 8:38 a.m. PERSON HOURS 5.6 DURATION 32 minutes Female 40% Male 53% Female 16% Male 67% Female 32% Male 58% ATTENDEES 10 team members Female 38% Male 50% WHAT HAPPENED? A 63-year-old male hiker was late in returning PERSON HOURS 11.2 home after a hike behind Snow King, prompting his partner to call emergency dispatch. As the TCSAR Board of Advisors was WHAT HAPPENED? !e Board of Advisors was alerted to an injured formulating a response, the man made it home safely and the mountain biker up Wilson Canyon. Two team members team stood down. responded directly to the trailhead and located the man about –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– a half hour after the initial page. !e patient was able to walk down the trail with assistance from the two team members and RESCUE Overdue KaYakers on the Gros Ventre River did not require an ambulance. DATE 6/5/2020 TIME 3:09 p.m. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– INCIDENTS BY ACTIVITY DURATION 1 hour, 51 minutes RESCUE Injured Mountain Biker on Teton Pass ATTENDEES 17 team members DATE 6/27/2020 PERSON HOURS 31.5 TIME 8 p.m. DURATION 2 hours, 25 minutes WINTER 2019/20 WINTER 10-YEAR AVG SUMMER 2020 SUMMER 10-YEAR AVG WHAT HAPPENED? Four kayakers, all men in their late 20s and ATTENDEES 14 team members XC Skiing ATV Other 2% 3% Backpacking early 30s, were overdue from a float down the Gros Ventre PERSON HOURS 33.8 » JULY 6% 5% Paragliding XC Skiing 3% River. !ey had launched from the bridge below Lower Slide 6% Lake at 1 p.m. and planned a half-hour float to the take-out by WHAT HAPPENED? A woman suffered possible head, leg and RESCUE Knee Injury on Sheep Mountain Hunting Hunting 7% Missing Person 4% Boating Jumping Rock. When they didn’t show up 1.5 hours later, the hip injuries after crashing her mountain bike on the Candy DATE 7/4/2020 6% 12% wife of one of the kayakers called 911. With the Class IV stretch TIME 1:40 p.m. Mountain Land trail above Crater Lake. TCSAR responded with the RZR Mountain Horseback of water running high due to snow melt, TCSAR initiated a DURATION 3 hours, 20 minutes Biking Riding Biking side-by-side, e-bike, and a truck. !e patient was located Backcountry Skiing ATTENDEES 16 team members 24% 14% 14% swiftwater response by sending two team members in kayaks 47 minutes after the initial page. She was packaged and 29% PERSON HOURS 13.3 Hiking Snowmobiling Backcountry Skiing down the river, another team to search the banks, and another transported to an ambulance near Crater Lake, and the teams 36% 45% to run communications. Just before the teams departed the 12% Horseback Boating returned to the hangar. Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem 10%ipsum Riding hangar, a sheriff deputy spotted the four kayakers floating WHAT HAPPENED? !e Board of Advisors was notified that a 28% Hiking 24% Hiking 29% down the river safely, and the team stood down at 4:30 p.m. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 63-year-old man had a knee injury on Sheep Mountain and Snowmobiling was unable to walk. Due to the distance from the trailhead, Other –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– RESCUE Overdue Hikers in Alaska Basin 29% 15% DATE 6/28/2020 the team decided to extract the man with the helicopter. With Snowboarding Backcountry ATV 12% Snowboarding 8% RESCUE Injured Mountain Biker on Fuzzy Bunny TIME 8:30 a.m. the ship being under contract with the U.S. Forest Service 14% DATE 6/15/2020 DURATION 2 hours, 42 minutes and Grand Teton National Park during the summer and due to Climbing Caving TIME 6:25 p.m. ATTENDEES 15 team members Covid-19 precautions, the park would be requested to handle 2% 2% DURATION 1 hour, 5 minutes PERSON HOURS 43.2 this and all future helicopter rescues in Teton County until the ATTENDEES 18 team members WHAT HAPPENED? Dispatch received a call regarding two hikers ship was transferred back to TCSAR in October. Jenny Lake 4 - TCSAR RESCUE REPORT www.tetoncountysar.org TCSAR RESCUE REPORT - 5 Rangers accepted this mission and flew to the patient. After the can versus an empty one, and whether a discharged can would RESCUE Injured Hiker in Mill Creek man was picked up by the helicopter, his female partner and leave lingering colors or odors. !e results did not support that DATE 7/13/2020 ACTIVE SAR INCIDENTS PER WINTER INCIDENTS BY MONTH 2019/2020 dog walked out of the backcountry on their own. an attack had occurred. After checking multiple other sources, TIME 4:24 p.m. the decision was made to not initiate a response. DURATION 38 minutes –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ATTENDEES 3 team members RESCUE Overdue Paddleboarder on Snake River –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– PERSON HOURS 1.9 December DATE 7/4/2020 RESCUE Overdue Hikers in Darby Canyon Winter 2019-20 TIME 6:48 p.m.
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