Search results for: “Yosemite Search and Rescue”
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Search For Missing Hiker Continues
Bakersfield.com: “Rescuers continued to search Tuesday for a 51-year-old Santa Barbara hiker who was reported missing a week ago in Yosemite National Park. A helicopter, scent-sniffing dogs, and Marines from Camp Pendleton were all part of a search-and-rescue team that has been looking for Michael Ficery. Ficery was reported missing June 21 after his wilderness…
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Braun Honored for More Than 1500 Rescues
National Park Service: Werner Braun, a dedicated volunteer for Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue since 1970, has been awarded the President’s Call to Service Award as well as the Department of the Interior’s Conservation Service Award in recognition of his selfless dedication to rescuing generations of climbers and hikers. Recipients of this high honor…
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It’s Been a Busy Week for YOSAR
The summer has just started and already Yosemite Search and Rescue teams have been busy first with a stranded climber, then a hang glider and finally a lost family pet.
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Take a Look Inside YOSAR
So how was your day at work? If you’re one of the brave men and women of YOSAR (Yosemite Search and Rescue) there’s no easy way to answer that question. Don’t believe me? Take a look at some of these awesome pictures David Pope has been taking of SARs (Search and Rescues). Wow! Kind of…
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Pretty Cool Ride
An United States Search and Rescue van seen in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Patrick. I didn’t know there was a United States Search and Rescue. I wonder if this is a post 9/11 thing. Either way, pretty cool van. Imagine taking the family camping in that thing. Does YOSAR (Yosemite Search and Rescue) still…
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Royal Arches Rockfall Photos
Edie from LittleRedTent.net sent me these photos she took of the Royal Arches rock fall this afternoon. The above photo shows the breakaway site on the cliff. Below a Yosemite Search and Rescue team member answers visitor questions about the incident. Below employees of the Delaware North Company await information and directions at the Curry…
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Survive! Lost in the Snow
Frazier’s SOS distress signal stomped into the snow and lined with tree boughs, as seen from the rescue helicopter before landing and evacuating him.
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YOSAR’s John Dill Honored for Achievements
If you’ve ever wanted to meet a true hero I’d tell you to go to Yosemite and find John Dill. Dill has been THE face behind Yosemite’s Search and Rescue for over 38 years now. He’s taken part in almost every major rescue, he was there at the beginning when the original wall rats were…
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Crash! Boom! Bang!
Call it some strange human fascination or maybe it was a little too much William Shatner and Rescue 911! growing up but I enjoy reading the recent incident reports over on the Friends of YOSAR (Yosemite Search and Rescue) website. Here’s an interesting photo from an accident that had occurred December 31st 2007 where a…
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Anniversary Run
A few weeks ago I celebrated a one year anniversary by going for a run on one of my favorite Yosemite trails. It has been a whole year since I was crushed by a giant boulder midway up LeConte gully, rescued by the heroic Yosemite Search and Rescue team, and put back together at Stanford…