ESCAPE 2012 is the annual NMSAR Convention where teams from all over the state can come together for training and networking!  This year ESCAPE was held at Buffalo Thunder Resort and it was a great success.  ASAR was there teaching the Technical track and we had members who participated in other tracks as well as getting their field certification!

Thanks to all those who attended!

Subject hiked the Chamiza Trail, turned east on the Winsor Trail, walked a shorted distance then turned back and walked west.  She was confused by the trail signs, unsure how to reaccess the Chamiza Trail and climbed two ridges to attain cell phone coverage.  Subject was found on a ridge just east of the Chamiza Trail at an elevation of 8200'.  She walked back with the SAR teams to the Chamiza trailhead.

Subject hiked Borrego Trail to the
Winsor Trail, turned west on the Winsor Trail and became confused as to her
location.  She was found .7 miles west of the junction of the Chamiza and
Winsor Trails and walked out on the Winsor Trail with an ASAR team to the Tesuque
trailhead where she was driven back to Incident Base for debriefing, then escorted back to town.

ASAR was put on standby should we be needed to help evacuate a woman who called 911 from near the Santa Fe Watershed and had built a fire. Sheriff Dept horse team was on route and found the subject, who was apparently able to walk out with them. ASAR had 4 members on standby to assist before the mission was terminated. 

ASAR was called to participate in groundpounding mission 4 hours north of Santa Fe, for a missing man with a history of strokes, whose vehicle had been found on a nearby highway. 

Stranded hiker on Ravens Ridge in deep snow.  ASAR is deploying to deliver snowshoes, clothing and support to subject.

ASAR teams were able to locate the subject and they were able to walk out under their own power.

April, Rafael & Max team up with SFSAR members Mike & Marcus

Groundpounding mission in wintery weather and variable terrain for missing elk hunter outside of El Rito in northern NM.

Subject was able to walk out in good condition!

Groundpounders requested for overdue hunter who was alone near the Taos Ski Valley, with his 2 llamas, in what was thought to be nearly 2 feet of snow from an early season storm. ASAR had a team of 3 on the way when another SAR team (Taos?) found the subject and assisted him and his exhausted llamas home!

Holy Ghost cg

Local SAR teams were mobilized when a deer hunter failed to return overnight. Teams began searching the area surrounding the Holy Ghost campground in the Santa Fe National Forest while the subject walked out of the Wilderness under his own power.

ASAR responded for an evacuation of an injured hiker at Lake Katherine. Three people overnighted unexpectedly when a member of their party injured an ankle and was unable to walk out on her own power. ASAR members joined with a Sant Fe SAR team and began hiking up the Windsor Trail toward Lake Katherine early on 9/6/11. In the meantime, after a cold night out the subject's companions were highly motivated to help her limp out to the Cowles Trailhead where State police met her for transport.