White Mountain SAR

Festival of Lights Parade 6-Dec-08

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:09:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:08:00 +0000

2008 Aspenfest Parade

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:19:00 +0000

July 2008, Basic Training Search

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:28:00 +0000

July o8 Search

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:09:00 +0000

Survival Training, April 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Fred and Justin (above) discussing some the many tools avalable (below) to make your survival experience more enjoyable.

Indian wells hike - Jan 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:53:00 +0000

A winter hike behind the Space Museum in Alamogordo, thanks William

HAM/SAR radio test

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:52:00 +0000

Base camp during setup

The view from inside one of the mine shafts up Turkey Canyon (enter at your own risk)

Camp Sierra Blanca Ropes Course

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:37:00 +0000

On September 30th a team of WMSAR's took on Camp Sierra Blanca's Ropes Course, here is a few photos of the action:

Litter Excercise #1

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:10:00 +0000

Every now and then an idea arrives that seems futile but pehaps fun, normally someone comes up with a good excuse not to do it but this time we couldn't think of one. Thanks to the wisdom and imagination of Groundpounder Policy & Proceedure Officer, Mike Shafer, 8 hardy groundpounders and 1 lazy NZder found themselves at the top of a steep trail (Dry Mills) with their shiny new litter and 90Kg (200 pounds) of Salt and a will to go down and up in aid of testing litter technique.
Well, looking back it was fun and with a couple of attempts we refined some great techniques for down and up. Coming next month: "Moving a Litter across a slope".

July 21-22 Mock Search

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:45:00 +0000

This mock search was held in Taos, NM and was attended by Beth and Meredith. Following are some photos from their weekend. For more photos click ttp://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=m6anein.5nle1t9j&Uy=-2f4lpl&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=389577364906_133109213111

MOCK SEARCH, 2 June, 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:42:00 +0000

Open House 20th May, 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:14:00 +0000

A collection of photos from our Open House on the 20th of May.

Thanks to Sharon for the photos and all the members who attended

Mock Search 2nd June 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:05:00 +0000

Base camp at the trailhead T25/Crest Trail

Team 3 off to do a sound sweep of the upper Rodamaker Canyon

Soundsweep completed, time to climb back to T25/Crest Trail

Still climbing

View from T25-Telephone Canyon intersection. Nogal Peak in background

Mr Cardboard on his way home

New Fir tree growth

Debrief: What did we learn?

Hike around Nogal Peak 19th may 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:53:00 +0000

Thanks to Ron Gordon for these great photos.

Wallsmith Canyon 9th Dec, 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:13:00 +0000

Wallsmith Canyon (or Wall Smith Canyon) is located over the ridge (to the west) of Rodamarker Canyon, just above Bonito Lake. On some maps there is a trail marked partway up this canyon so our hike was an exploration of this canyon. We found a lot of evidence that there was a trail that was maintained up until perhaps 10 years ago.

The trail appeared to end a mile or so from the Crest Trail. Below is a photo of after the trail ended.

Emerging into the meadow below the Crest Trail:

The Crest Trail is just blow the horizon.

This was the view across the Bonito Catchment, Nogal Peak is left of center.

We climbed up to the ridge between Wallsmith and Rodamarker canyons rather than go all the way to the Crest Trail. Below Dick covers the final uphill stretch.

Our Lunch spot; view northeast. Monjeau is out of frame to the right.
Decent into Rodamarker Canyon. The first drop (until we joined up with the trail) was fairly steep.

Near the top of Rodamarker canyon we crossed a Cougar/Mountain Lion's day-old path. (Approx. 3-4inches toe-to-toe).
The final walk down the well-maintained Rodamarker Canyon trail:

New Litter

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:35:00 +0000

Thanks to the Hubbard foundation for helping us purchase this new litter. There is no doubt that it will aid us considerably in getting our job done.

Nogal peak 22July 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:53:00 +0000

This next photo is from about six months before (before the rain).

Fort Stanton Cave, 10 june 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:46:00 +0000

Fort Stanton Cave 10 June 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:42:00 +0000

New Website

noreply@blogger.com (Mark) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:29:00 +0000

Coming soon, in just a month or so, we hope our website will be updated (not this little photo album, the real member-grabbing, informative website), look for it soon.

Also, you will have noticed that this site has a new address. In an attempt to simplify things and hopefully allow you to remember all of the groups web and email addresses the new shortened version of "White Mountain Search And Rescue" will be WhiteMountainSAR, thus:

www.WhiteMountainSAR.org

www.WhiteMountainSAR.blogspot.com

WhiteMountainSAR@gmail.com

We hope this make things easier for you.