Somebody spent a cold night outdoors
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Damn lucky - did the story make it appear that he was riding alone?
If he wasn't, he needs to find some new friends. I like the rescue, here buddy here's some snow shoes and a map. Actually the Fremont S&R is the best there is but the story doesn't give them any kudos.
Did the S&R drop him some snowshoes?
I thought maybe he made some Survivorman snowshoes out of pine boughs...?
I thought maybe he made some Survivorman snowshoes out of pine boughs...?
I was there the day before and my friend troy weston ended up helping search and rescue find the kid. He was riding out back to the truck and he went off the road, he stopped and told his dad he would go out the drainage. He didn't make it out the bottom. Troy came out of the mountains and saw the dad sitting there and asked if something was wrong and the man said he lost his boy and he was suppose to come out the bottom but didn't make it. Troy's sister started texting the kid and he said he was walking out they told him to get back to his sled and try starting a fire and stay there. Troy and search and rescue found him, Troy said it was a pretty bad hole he was in. Also the coldest weather ever. They didn't get out till 4am.
the article said the snowmobiler is from No Dak......the scary news lady said he is from So Dak...??? If he was indeed from No Dak, that would explain alot!!!! .......regardless, it is good to see him safely out of the woods!!!
.......regardless, it is good to see him safely out of the woods!!!Better article from IP News
S&R braves subzero temps to save another North Dakotan
S&R volunteers risk their lives to save snowmobilers that venture into the mountains when snow conditions are not good for snowmobiling.
ISLAND PARK —Fremont County Search & Rescue volunteers saved a 20-year-old snowmobiler from North Dakota Saturday.
It was the second North Dakotan S&R saved in less than a week.
Having ignored the widespread warnings from avalanche reports asking people to stay out of the backcountry, the man was stranded in the bottom of Dry Canyon. This is a treacherous canyon near Rea’s Peak and Mount Jefferson on the Idaho - Montana border, accessible only through Idaho.
S&R volunteer, Annie Stephens, said the avalanche conditions were “a huge concern to unit members responding to this site.”
Sephens said 20 S&R volunteers were involved in the rescue/search in -40 degree F temperatures. The unit and victim communicated by cell phone texting at first, but the victim’s phone battery went dead.
She said S&R volunteers asked him for his GOS coordinates and distance from his machine. He responded that he was a quarter mile from his snowmobile. S&R texted him to return to his snowmobile and gave him instructions as to how to use his sled start a fire. Then, they received no further information from the victim.
“Access to this unforgiving area after unit members have meandered through thick terrain as far as they can safely go by snowmachine is only by snowshoes, battling thick forests, steep slopes, and temperatures reaching minus 40 degrees,” said Stephens.
Search team #1 was sent in on snowshoes to the coordinates the victim had sent after traveling as far as they could on snowmobiles. Search team #2 was sent to the top of Rea’s Peak and on to Horsemint Springs to attempt reaching the victim from the top of the canyon. The second team saw a taillight from the victim’s snowmobile come on. A compass heading was plotted.
Air Idaho from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center was called and asked to assist. While Air Idaho was flying to the base camp, a bag of equipment — fire starter, matches, hand and body warmers, water, gloves, flares, a pre set unit radio, and flashlights — was assembled for Air Idaho to drop to the victim.
When the helicopter started to get close, the victim turned his snowmobile back on, and Air Idaho was able to drop the bag.
“We then realized that the coordinates we had received from the victim were wrong — the correct location was more than one mile away, and Search team #2 was very close to the victim,” said Stephens.
With navigational software and GPS readings, unit members were able to get as close to him as possible before climbing on their snowshoes for the trek down into the canyon, carrying whatever additional supplies might be needed. Unit members were able to positively locate the man after he set off a provided flare and using the radio to make contact with him shortly after midnight. After determining he was fit for the hike out, they warmed his feet, gave him something to eat, and equipped him with snowshoes for the climb to a fire, where additional unit members were waiting with snowmobiles to take him to safety. Unit members finally returned home about 3:30 A.M. Sunday morning.
“This rescue was very involved, with S&R members using many different skills and resources. Fremont County Search and Rescue wishes to thank Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center for the helicopter and flight crew," Stephens said.
Avalanche conditions are high right now, says S&R volunteer Annie Stephens. Take all backcountry cautions. Take necessary equipment and survival gear. If you have a GPS, and a cell phone, take them with you, but do not rely on them entirely for a safe rescue if you find yourself in trouble or stranded. Also bring avalanche transceivers and avalanche rescue equipment (probes and shovels), know the avalanche conditions, and know the skills to save lives. Plan ahead. Make sure you know the area you are heading to.
If you find yourself in trouble, stop, take a look around you, and do not go any further. Make mental notes about any physical features or landmarks that would assist in your rescue. Make a plan, stick to your plan, narrow the riding area, and most of all let someone know where you are planning to go.
To check avalanche conditions, click here.
Donate to Search and Rescue.
Mountain top temperatures: -40
Blue Creek parking lot (base camp) temperatures: -28
S&R braves subzero temps to save another North Dakotan
S&R volunteers risk their lives to save snowmobilers that venture into the mountains when snow conditions are not good for snowmobiling.
ISLAND PARK —Fremont County Search & Rescue volunteers saved a 20-year-old snowmobiler from North Dakota Saturday.
It was the second North Dakotan S&R saved in less than a week.
Having ignored the widespread warnings from avalanche reports asking people to stay out of the backcountry, the man was stranded in the bottom of Dry Canyon. This is a treacherous canyon near Rea’s Peak and Mount Jefferson on the Idaho - Montana border, accessible only through Idaho.
S&R volunteer, Annie Stephens, said the avalanche conditions were “a huge concern to unit members responding to this site.”
Sephens said 20 S&R volunteers were involved in the rescue/search in -40 degree F temperatures. The unit and victim communicated by cell phone texting at first, but the victim’s phone battery went dead.
She said S&R volunteers asked him for his GOS coordinates and distance from his machine. He responded that he was a quarter mile from his snowmobile. S&R texted him to return to his snowmobile and gave him instructions as to how to use his sled start a fire. Then, they received no further information from the victim.
“Access to this unforgiving area after unit members have meandered through thick terrain as far as they can safely go by snowmachine is only by snowshoes, battling thick forests, steep slopes, and temperatures reaching minus 40 degrees,” said Stephens.
Search team #1 was sent in on snowshoes to the coordinates the victim had sent after traveling as far as they could on snowmobiles. Search team #2 was sent to the top of Rea’s Peak and on to Horsemint Springs to attempt reaching the victim from the top of the canyon. The second team saw a taillight from the victim’s snowmobile come on. A compass heading was plotted.
Air Idaho from Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center was called and asked to assist. While Air Idaho was flying to the base camp, a bag of equipment — fire starter, matches, hand and body warmers, water, gloves, flares, a pre set unit radio, and flashlights — was assembled for Air Idaho to drop to the victim.
When the helicopter started to get close, the victim turned his snowmobile back on, and Air Idaho was able to drop the bag.
“We then realized that the coordinates we had received from the victim were wrong — the correct location was more than one mile away, and Search team #2 was very close to the victim,” said Stephens.
With navigational software and GPS readings, unit members were able to get as close to him as possible before climbing on their snowshoes for the trek down into the canyon, carrying whatever additional supplies might be needed. Unit members were able to positively locate the man after he set off a provided flare and using the radio to make contact with him shortly after midnight. After determining he was fit for the hike out, they warmed his feet, gave him something to eat, and equipped him with snowshoes for the climb to a fire, where additional unit members were waiting with snowmobiles to take him to safety. Unit members finally returned home about 3:30 A.M. Sunday morning.
“This rescue was very involved, with S&R members using many different skills and resources. Fremont County Search and Rescue wishes to thank Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center for the helicopter and flight crew," Stephens said.
Avalanche conditions are high right now, says S&R volunteer Annie Stephens. Take all backcountry cautions. Take necessary equipment and survival gear. If you have a GPS, and a cell phone, take them with you, but do not rely on them entirely for a safe rescue if you find yourself in trouble or stranded. Also bring avalanche transceivers and avalanche rescue equipment (probes and shovels), know the avalanche conditions, and know the skills to save lives. Plan ahead. Make sure you know the area you are heading to.
If you find yourself in trouble, stop, take a look around you, and do not go any further. Make mental notes about any physical features or landmarks that would assist in your rescue. Make a plan, stick to your plan, narrow the riding area, and most of all let someone know where you are planning to go.
To check avalanche conditions, click here.
Donate to Search and Rescue.
Mountain top temperatures: -40
Blue Creek parking lot (base camp) temperatures: -28
First, don't split up, especially in unfamiliar terrain. Drainage's are tough enough under most circumstances, but potentially lethal with the high avy conditions. Kudos to the S & R fellas. I am surprised that he got cell phone reception in that area - very lucky boy.
This also happened to one my my buddies last week. They dropped down over a hill with 8 feet of fresh powder and could not make it out on his 1640cc two stroke. Five of them huddled together to stay warm.
Here is the story:
VERNON, B.C. - Five people who'd vanished while snowmobiling in the B.C. Okanagan are safe.
The group disappeared Sunday on Hunter's Range in the Enderby area, near Vernon.
One of the five men managed to make cell phone contact with his wife saying they were all okay and were making their way out of the woods after getting stuck in fresh snow.
They had to dig themselves out and ended up staying overnight.
It's the second time this week search crews have gone to Hunter's Range.
A single snowmobiler went missing Boxing Day after he got stuck in fresh snow.
Here is the story:
VERNON, B.C. - Five people who'd vanished while snowmobiling in the B.C. Okanagan are safe.
The group disappeared Sunday on Hunter's Range in the Enderby area, near Vernon.
One of the five men managed to make cell phone contact with his wife saying they were all okay and were making their way out of the woods after getting stuck in fresh snow.
They had to dig themselves out and ended up staying overnight.
It's the second time this week search crews have gone to Hunter's Range.
A single snowmobiler went missing Boxing Day after he got stuck in fresh snow.
So did anyone else snicker at the thought of getting a text message from S&R on how to light your snowmobile on fire.(NODAK, DRP CIGERET N GS TNK STND BCK! THN WRM -40 SNICKR BR ON MLTD RECAGE) On a serious note, this story and an experience this Summer has stuck in my mind that you can text on almost no signal. I used to think if you couldn't make a call you couldn't text either.
Some one needs to post a sign at the top of Dry canyon saying not to go any further!!!!!!!!! about 3 years ago, a friend of mine did the same thing, only they took 6 sleds down in there after they decided it was a bad place. S&R got them out. Maybe they should just have GPS cords for a dedicated survival kit down in the bottom, just leave a good box down in the hole. It is guaranteed that someone each year will go into Dry Canyon for a look see. I do not understand the thought process of "I will just go down this and it will let me out at the bottom".
Maybe they need to make a t-shirt made and sold to the fellows who have been rescued, saying they are in the "Dry Canyon Club"?
In all seriousness, I am glad he got out. Fremont SAR is the best around.
Maybe they need to make a t-shirt made and sold to the fellows who have been rescued, saying they are in the "Dry Canyon Club"?
In all seriousness, I am glad he got out. Fremont SAR is the best around.
Does this image give an idea of the area of operations?
Revpilot,
This is from the shots we got on Saturday, the bluebird day of the occurrence, when we just happened to be flying over. I don't have a direct image of Dry Canyon. The Swedish Co-ed bikini high mountain powder interns were distracting me from the observation during the flyover. My bad...........
Stovebolt
Team Ruptured Buzzard
Revpilot,
This is from the shots we got on Saturday, the bluebird day of the occurrence, when we just happened to be flying over. I don't have a direct image of Dry Canyon. The Swedish Co-ed bikini high mountain powder interns were distracting me from the observation during the flyover. My bad...........
Stovebolt
Team Ruptured Buzzard
Avy post updated with pics
I improved the resolution on the pics I posted in "Avalanche Awareness" under
Caught in the Act - hope they went home
and you can now zoom in and see the slope we flew over in the Big Holes on the same flight we shot the image of Reas in the previous post here. Six sledders on the same slope, leeward side, wind-loaded, under a cornice. One sledder right on top of the other five, cutting the entire length of the cornice from South to North on Relay Ridge while the others lit the engines upslope all at the same time.
Teton County Idaho SAR saved 6 body bags last Saturday.
Spellbinding.........
http://snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1133106#post1133106
Stovebolt
I improved the resolution on the pics I posted in "Avalanche Awareness" under
Caught in the Act - hope they went home
and you can now zoom in and see the slope we flew over in the Big Holes on the same flight we shot the image of Reas in the previous post here. Six sledders on the same slope, leeward side, wind-loaded, under a cornice. One sledder right on top of the other five, cutting the entire length of the cornice from South to North on Relay Ridge while the others lit the engines upslope all at the same time.
Teton County Idaho SAR saved 6 body bags last Saturday.
Spellbinding.........
http://snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1133106#post1133106
Stovebolt
We have people that have to be found or rescued every year up here.
They like to go out in blizzards and unsafe ice conditions.
Others go out with sleds that are not in good repair.
They like to go out in blizzards and unsafe ice conditions.
Others go out with sleds that are not in good repair.
Or was it the wind shear....when you screamed and dropped the camera? Haha! I think that picture is just West of dry canyon.
How Dry is that canyon?
T,
This view is from the ESE of Reas, looking predominantly West. The top of Dry Canyon would be immediately to the West of Reas, not visible in the image, but the draw just to the left side of the image ought to be Dry Canyon. I could be wrong, but I have to remind you how much you paid the navigator........... and ask if you got your money's worth............ hehehe.
Wind shear? Is that what they call it when you show the sledders below the top of your wings? My nuts just dropped down to normal anatomical position this morning, and I celebrated with a stiff jolt of coffee, and a quick slap in the face. Nice driving on your part, by the way. Wheels down first upon landing, the whole nine yards.
Sweet.
Take a look and see if you think that might be the Dry Canyon on the left side of the image...............what do you think, PIC?
Stovey
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"I think that picture is just West of dry canyon."
T,
This view is from the ESE of Reas, looking predominantly West. The top of Dry Canyon would be immediately to the West of Reas, not visible in the image, but the draw just to the left side of the image ought to be Dry Canyon. I could be wrong, but I have to remind you how much you paid the navigator........... and ask if you got your money's worth............ hehehe.
Wind shear? Is that what they call it when you show the sledders below the top of your wings? My nuts just dropped down to normal anatomical position this morning, and I celebrated with a stiff jolt of coffee, and a quick slap in the face. Nice driving on your part, by the way. Wheels down first upon landing, the whole nine yards.
Sweet.
Take a look and see if you think that might be the Dry Canyon on the left side of the image...............what do you think, PIC?
Stovey
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"I think that picture is just West of dry canyon."
Wolfman, Wolfman - How copy? <over>
.....and God Bless the guys and Ladies who go out into the cold dark unknown to bring them back.
"So That Others May Live"
Stay frosty up there...........
Stovey
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.....and God Bless the guys and Ladies who go out into the cold dark unknown to bring them back.
"So That Others May Live"
Stay frosty up there...........
Stovey
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