OPERATIONS NOTES:

Ready Packs are my rant, these days. No fair ifn you don't BRING yorn. Leaving the cars in a T shirt saying, "Oh I'll be OK" is a bit thin. Or "It's in my car." Safety of the rescuer first.

When 502 and GCSAR are paged out for the same incident, the two agencies HAVE TO TALK about routing before leaving the sheds. Takes 2-4 minutes.

"Subject" is a better word than "victim".

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05-8    3-4-05    ATV Rollover     Hell's Revenge
   This guy rolled his ATV over backwards on the north slope of the Mickey's Hot Tub area. SAR and EMS were on scene 35 minutes after the page. CareFlight was called in.
   This was our first response to the SRBT since 11- 5- 04. Consequently, everything looked really steep and scary. Training the eyes. Riding any vehicle on the SRBT is as much about angles as anything else.
Responders: Bego, Jim, Sam, Dave, Barbara, Margy Jeff Arbon from State Parks
     EMTs: Jennie Tuft, Cindy Lammert

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GCSAR Training: Air Ops
  From CAP: Bob Dalla, Craig Hauke and James Ward spoke. Way interesting. CAP FLT 4311
  The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary of the U S Air Force, therefore part of the Military.
  Nationally 35,000 Senior Officers, 25,000 Cadets, 530 airplanes, 10 Cessna 182's in Utah, 1 at CNY.
  They do Search and Rescue exercises 4 times a year, geared toward finding downed aircraft.
  One airplane, stationed in SLC, can take aerial photographs
            and Email them to YOU in real time. How cool is that !!
  We can page CAP if the County has used all other County resources.
  Call Air Force Coordination Center.
  Please, no chasing fugitives.
  Plane has National SAR channel, typical aircraft channels ( Victor channels ).
  Planes equipped to hunt for ELT's but not PLB's. Different frequencies: 121.5 vs 406.025
  Give coordinates to them in Lat / Long, Degrees and Minutes, forget the Seconds
            cuz the plane is going by really fast.
  Join CAP so you can fly with them on operations: 3rd Monday, 6 PM, Moab Fire Dept
Helicopters, more on
  Medical Helos, in order: St Mary's CareFlight, Farmington, Classic in Page, SLC
  Risk Management for Helicopter Operations: Just DO IT.
       Do you really NEED one?
       Can one GET here? Terrain, Weather, Time o Day
       Do you have the necessary crew to do the project?
       Is the pilot qualified to do the project??

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05-9     3-12-05    ATV Rollover    White Wash Sand Dunes
   Reported as an injured female from an ATV rollover. She was traversing across slope, bailed out on the downhill side and the ATV rolled over her.
   Brent 1 T 14 Pace jumped out in a flash. GCSAR took a Bronco and a Ranger to the Dunes and met with EMT Jackson. They went to the incident site where the gal had a broken leg. We brought the subject back to the 4WD ambulance. The ambulance then took her to St. Mary's in Grand Jct.
Responders: Dave, Barbara, John, Jim (Matt called in from the Golf Course)

05-10    3-13-05    Recovery       Klondike Bluffs
   How very sad: This 21 year old man, biking with his girlfriend, sat down to rest. And he just died on the spot. He had had heart trouble since he was a kid and had a pacemaker. They were a mile up on the slickrock part.
GCSAR responded with 1 T 7 and EMS in 1 T 502.
Kris Hurlbert of the TIP (Trauma Intervention Program) talked with the girlfriend and helped her out til her Mother flew in to Moab.
Responders: Dave, Barbara, Bego
     EMTs: Summer, Camille, James

05-11    3-13-05    Assist in Arches Natural Park     Carry out from Delicate Arch
   Later in the afternoon, this French guy fell some feet down, landing mostly on his face. This happened down the trail a bit from Delicate Arch.
   Arches sent out an APB for "mas gentes" Jeff, inventor of the RISKY- Webb litter tie-in, came down from the Island. We all wheeled him down the trail to the ambulance.
Responders: Jim, Aug, Dave, Barbara, Bego
     EMTs: Summer, Camille, James

05-12    5-14-05    ATV Rollover     Metal Masher
   They cell phoned out and got Monticello. They requested a helicopter and gave us perfect coordinates. CareFlight was dispatched. GCSAR and EMS were paged. We started up from the lower Gemini parking lot with two Rangers just as the helo flew over us. The weather was cold and blustery with a few snow flurries around.
   The helo landed near the injured party. By the time we got to the bottom of the Metal Masher Trail the helo folks were ready to take off with the subject.
   Then 1 T 11 had to drive his ride up to the crash site to get a VIN number. You could see the joy. Responders: Frank, Bego, Dave, Barbara
     EMTs: Jeff and John

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HI) Shorthaul Rescue of Dehydrated Hiker

The park received a cell phone call via 911 reporting an unconscious girl on the switchbacks on the backcountry Kaaha trail below the Hilina Pali Road around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 7th. Rangers and Hawaii County FD paramedics responded. The 12-year-old girl was a member of a school group that had walked down a difficult trail during the heat of the day. Many in the group were out of water and had difficulty getting back up the hill. The girl was conscious but very weak when rangers arrived. One of the paramedics started an IV and rangers shorthauled her to a waiting ambulance. She was taken to Hilo Medical Center for treatment. [Submitted by Paul M. Ducasse, Chief Ranger]

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3- 15- 04 Sheriff Nyland's meeting about "the plan" for Jeep Week
   Many agencies spoke, all agreed. GCSAR will be in charge of moving and manning the Command Post at the behest of the "VSP" or Very Smart People, as Gary Haynes would say. (He's at Coronado NP now).
 

Steve White: "The real secret of life is not to be in the know but to be in the mystery".

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05-13   3-18-05    Broken Ankle    Primitive Loop ("difficult hiking")    Arches NP
   This fellow slid and fell and broke his ankle upon landing. This was by Private Arch, a spur off the Primitive Loop. About as far away as you can get from a road in Arches NP. The page came a bit before 4 PM and the weather was supposed to worsen to rain and wind. Oh boy.
   We (GCSAR, Arches NP, the EMTs and Arches Helicopters) decided to keep the litter team going toward Private Arch AND call in Arches Helo, wind and weather permitting, to transport the subject out from the nearest LZ to the scene. We got coordinates. In that rugged fin-infested landscape, where could an LZ be? The nearest alternative would have been way up by Dark Angel. Could we get there by dark? No
   If there is no wind, and there luckily wasn't, John can land his Bell Jet Ranger on a dime. That's all we had really for his skids. But we had good tail boom clearances and a really sweet fly away. So.....
   Arches folks wheeled the subject about 1/2 mile to the LZ. We loaded him in the helo sitting up. A paramedic rode with him as did his female friend doctor from Chinle, AZ.
   The litter used was our new 18 lb titanium one from Traverse Rescue. We had to use alot of duct tape to keep the wheel on the litter but the light weight litter was a hit. Lesson learned about some of the types of litter/wheel combos amongst various agencies.
   The last part of the hike home was by headlamp. Clouds obscured the half full moon. It rained shortly later out there.
Responders: Rex, Bego, Jim, Barbara, James
     Arches NP: Gary who dispatched. Jason, Sharon, Diane, Murray & a bunch of Rangers.
     Arches Helicopters pilot John Ruhl
     EMTs: Teri, Summer, Nathan, Theresa

05-14   3-20-05    Overdue Hikers    Tusher Canyon    An Outing with Brent Pace
   Three men, 20 and 21, said they were going up Tusher Canyon Left to hike over to Rattlesnake Canyon, looking for sheds. They were to be home by 6 PM. No they weren't.
   One father was concerned cuz his boy is diabetic. That put some urgency into the mix.
   The father went out looking. Two members of the Emery County Search and Rescue drove around looking. Brent 1 T 14 Pace was roused. And GCSAR was paged at the behest of Emery Co.
   We trailered our ATVs to the fork in Tusher Canyon where Brent waited. Pace didn't think the men were up in that neck of the woods. It was then that we found out from an Emery County Deputy that the 3 young men were in the Westwinds Truck Stop. They had been up the Green River, not up Tusher Canyon.
Responders: Bego, Sam, Shawn, Aug

05-15   3-21-05    Biker Down    Porcupine Rim Trail
   Dispatch patched me to a cell phone up on Porcupine Rim. This guy dislocated his shoulder and was just beyond the first Castle Valley overlook. No problem.
   GCSAR rolled out 2 of our Polaris Rangers and proceeded uphill with 502, the 4WD ambulance. Jeff decided to take 502 to the subject. Porcupine Rim has to be the bumpiest trail out there.
   We drove thru a 10 minute snowstorm on the way out.
Responders: John, Bego, Sam, Rex
     EMTs: Paula, Jeff, Bob

05-16   3-23-05   Overdue Jeeper
   This jeeper was going to start up Onion Creek and come back into Moab from the south. Quite the itinerary. Going thru Taylor Flats was not an option cuz of snow. So, Loop Road??
   Kim 1 T 7 briefed us at the shed. The phone rang. Jeeper had returned.
Responders: Jim, John, Bego, Dave, Barbara, Matt

05-17    3-26 05    Broken Arm    The B & B in Mill Creek over Flat Pass    Winter Rescue
   One of the prettiest outings ever. Ten inches of fresh snow, weighting tree branches down over the road by Mill Creek. Misty sunrise.
   We took all 3 Rangers over Flat Pass and down the road. Kind of whacky, going thru winter to arrive at a remote B & B. The guy had fallen and broken his arm quite a few hours before we got there. His wife had tried to drive in but couldn't.
   The EMTs gave him some morphine which he reacted to. Jeff said to put the helo on standby. They gave him some anti-morphine and it was good. We packaged the subject in our hypothermia stuff and drove out to the ambulance at Ken's Lake.
   I'd call this a Winter Rescue.
   And then right to Moab City Police to help with Saturday Jeep Safari Line-Up.
Responders: Sam, Bego, TBerry, Jim, Matt, Jon
     EMTs: Paula Fuller (Miss Ready Pack 2005), Jeff

05-18   3-26-05    MotorBiker    Down SRBT
   The helo was the first to arrive. Hard to spot the subject cuz he was walking around. The guy had a broken leg but refused GCSAR and EMS. So the helo flew him to the SRBT parking lot. ?????
   EMS had responded as far as the Command Post and GCSAR didn't get out of the shed.
Responders: Helo Star 7, Zane, Paula

05-19   3-27-05    Recovery    Upstream from Moab Boat Dock
   This young man fell to his death early in the day and it took friends much of the day to find him. He had been climbing up some steep, loose ledges and apparently slipped off.
Responders: Rex, Bego, Jim, Sam, Barbara, Aug, James, Jeff Arbon
     S.O.: Curt Brewer, Shawn Chapman
     NPS: Jason Ramsdell, Karen McJones
     EMTs: Jeff, Mark, Nathan
     MFD: Corky Emergency Manager Brewer
     TIP: Kris Hurlbert

05-20   3-27-05    Lost Jeeper      Poison Spider
   This guy phoned dispatch that he was lost. Shawn said there would be a bill attached if we came up to find him and he said yes, come ahead.
   Then he wanted to know why 5 people came up to get him. Wanted Rex to drive his vehicle out. Then he popped a tire. GCSAR had to change it cuz he couldn't. A novice at picking lines of travel. Ungrateful. All that in the middle of the night at the end of an exhausting week. Poo.
Responders: Rex, TBerry, Dan, Matt, Sam, Kris

05-21    4-2,3-05    Overdue Mountain Bike Racers      Golden Spike
   Paged at 7:45 PM as overdue from the Extreme Adventure Race. Some race teams looked at the map and concluded that, from Gemini Bridges Rappel Checkpoint, the shortest looking route to the finish line at Gold Bar Beach would be to go up Gold Bar, across Golden Spike, down Poison Spider and downstream on Hwy 279. Said they took a wrong turn "somewhere".
   Will Newcomer, the originator and energy behind the race, phoned up. Said they had 2 vehicles out looking. We said, "Keep doing that". Then, a bit later, someone talked to someone who had seen them at The Crack about 4:30 PM. And we found them some where near The Crack.
   John and Jamie did the Unimog boogie up Poison Spider as a hasty team. A Ranger and 2 six wheelers went on up the Spike. There is a way to go around the big, scary steep dome of rock. Sam and Dave took the Bronco up Gold Bar to the first hard place. They could see the guy's campfire. Route finding is arduous at night. --->
   Some time in the night Dispatch said, "I think they're still out getting lost". Well said. The guys had found an overhang about 2 feet high, 8 feet deep and taller in back, rather tubular. They built a fire at the lower end and slept in the warm updrafts at the back of the overhang. Toasty. We woke them up at 2:15 am. They would have been very cold with no matches.
   On the way out, they jogged ahead of us finding the trail, thank you. That saved probably an hour coming out. Never saw The Crack so we must have gone around it somehow. We built a bit of road at that one place on Gold Bar. Loaded the ATVs at sunrise. Cloudy, no navigation by stars or 3rd quarter moon after midnight. Your regular version of dark. Woo.
Responders: Nancy, Sam, Lee Junge is back from Az., Dave, Barbara, Matt, Bego, John and Jamie

05-22   4-6-05    Jeep Rollover     SteelBender
   At that very one place, the steep ledge, the only really hard spot, this guy rolled his jeep. He was by himself and cell phoned 911.
   Here's the deal-- he said he was 3/4 of the way on SteelBender. Well, since SteelBender and Flat Pass have the same start and the same finish but SteelBender is much longer, what is 3/4? From where, to where? Then we learned he was by the ledge by the cattleguard. This is just after SteelBender rejoins Flat Pass as you go south. OK, that pinpoints him.
   He banged up his arm in the roll. 4WD ambulance 502 and our two Rangers went to get him.
Responders: Bego, Dave, Lee, Aug, Shawn on time and a half.
     EMTs: Summer ready pack, some er not, Paula miss ready pack, Jeff

05-23   4-10-05    MotorCycler Flies 45 Feet, leaves head divot     Near Monitor Butte
   Hard to describe this one. Sometimes, it gets confusing.
   Several locations were mentioned as the reporting party was talking to dispatch, figuring out more and more about where they were. Cotter Mine Road, 7 Mile Rim, Uranium Arch, WipeOut Hill, between the Buttes. Well, where were they?? On the north side of the Monitor, on one of several main dirt roads in that area. So... most of those names did apply but covered 5- 6 miles of roads.
   The reporting party gave dispatch coordinates. Were they Degrees, Minutes, Seconds or Degrees and Decimal Minutes?? Here, again, is the danger of not knowing what your GPS says and, in the case of dispatch, not knowing what questions to ask to clarify what coord system is being used.
   The helicopter pilot was very confused about the coordinates given to him over the radio and I don't blame him. Various people who passed on the coords had all the numbers right but put the decimal point in any of 3 different places. Depending on where you put that pesky decimal point, your subject could be several places in a square mile or two area. That's a BIG deal. So the RP wound up telling dispatch by cell phone to tell the helo by radio where to fly.
   Then the pilot told Frank and myself that we should always give coords to him in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds. Huh?? We said we'd never heard of that. Hmmm. He also said he had heard "39 Degrees" at one point and said that was WAY north of the airport (yup, like in Uintah County). We looked at the RPs GPS units and they were set up for DM.M.
   Meanwhile, GCSAR ATVs went over to WipeOut Hill. 1 T 502 was over by 7 Mile Point.
   So, by the time 836 and 805 got there (responding from Hittle Bottom and Castleton), the subject was packaged and ready to carry to the helo. His helmet was totally scraped up and there was a divot in the ground where he hit and skidded.
   The numbers: 38 degrees, 39. 765 minutes. 109 degrees, 44. 136 minutes. These coords were passed along with the decimal point one, two or three places from the right. All different places.
   Two lessons:
      When 502 and GCSAR are paged out, they HAVE TO TALK at the shed to determine the plan.
      And, when Joe Citizen calls in coordinates, ask where the decimal point is.
Responders: Sam, Dave, Lee, Nancy, Frank, Bego and Andrea
 

                      Is Disneyland the only people trap operated by a mouse??


05-24   4-15-05    Lost Trail Runner    SteelBender
   This fellow was going to jog the Flat Pass Trail but turned up SteelBender. He cell phoned his wife. That got to us. He said he was by a SteelBender sign. We said stay put. By now it was dark.
   We got to SteelBender and there were his running shoe tracks. We followed around the trail to him. He was almost back to Flat Pass trail. He was grateful and chilly.
Responders: TBerry, Lee, Margy, Bego, Nancy

05-25   4-16-05    Broken Ankle    Porcupine Rim Trail
   Another leg injury at "that same place" about 6 miles out. What is it about that piece of downhill ledges that gets bikers more than any other spot on the trail?
   502 drove in and so did we. Bumpity-bumpity for hours. Nuff said.
Responders: TBerry, Sam, Lee, Bego, Matt (Several other members checked in
     but were requested to stay in town in case a second call-out happened).

XX-XX   4-18-05    Almost
   Jim Walker, most excellent Bike Patrol maven, cell phoned that a guy he found out by Shrimp Rock had cramps so bad he couldn't make it out even with time and gatorade. He wanted assistance but was not wanting to pay the cost of a rescue.
   We don't respond to backcountry medical situations without EMS coming along also. That would be two bills.
   He called a bit later to say he had a deal with a local company. OK. Good way to solve the problem.
Responders: Jim Bike Patrol Walker, Kent in the S.O. Bego, Paula, Frank, Lee on deck.

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Two College Students Die in Backcountry Slot Canyon
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (AZ,UT)

   On the morning of Sunday, April 17th, dispatch was advised of a search in progress in the Choprock and Neon Canyon areas of the Escalante drainage within Glen Canyon NRA. Two BYU students in their mid-twenties had entered the recreation area via the BLM Egypt trailhead on Wednesday evening to complete a circuit loop of the canyons. When the two failed to return on time, the family notified the Garfield County Sheriff's Office. Searchers from the park and from the sheriff's office were supported by rangers and a helicopter from Grand Canyon, local volunteer rescue groups from Tropic and Boulder, Utah, and Classic Aviation from Page, Arizona. A total of three helicopters and 32 searchers were involved. The bodies of the two students were found and eventually removed from Choprock canyon, one of the most technical, difficult slot canyons in southeast Utah ? a canyon that is infrequently hiked due to the advanced skills required. The recovery efforts occurred in a long narrow slot section of the canyon that averaged 18 inches wide at the recovery site. The canyon at that location is over 200 feet deep, trends east and west, and receives no sunshine. Temperatures in the narrow, dark canyon were hovering around 40 degrees, with a water temperature in the low 40s. At the bottom of the slot, a log jam dam created a debris-filled pool 40 yards long, eight to 10 feet deep and less than two feet wide. The NPS recovery team of Brett Timm, Laurie Axelson, Derek Dahlremple, Bill Woverton, and Cathy Burns were starting the difficult process of removing the first victim when they found the second victim under the first and lying on the bottom of the pool. The cause of death is thought to be a combination of hypothermia and drowning. The medical examiners report is pending. [Submitted by Mike Mayer, Chief Ranger]

Climbing Fatality on Mount Whitney
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (CA)

   Patrick W. Wang, 27, of Hillsboro, Oregon, fell to his death on Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park on Sunday, April 10th. Wang and his climbing partner were descending the Mountaineer's Route after reaching the summit of the mountain when Wang started to slide and tumble out of control just above the area known at the "Notch". His climbing partner and life-long friend, along with two other climbers on the same route, witnessed the fall. They were unable to make contact with Wang, who had fallen about 1,000 feet. The park received a 9-1-1 call reporting the accident on Sunday evening. Due to impending darkness and the need to procure a helicopter, the recovery team was flown to the vicinity of the accident on Monday morning. Wang's body and his personal property were brought to the AshMountain helibase. This was the second climbing fatality at this same location within a month. [Submitted by Alex Picavet, P I O]

Comments: Been there. The Mountaineers Route is steep and loose ball bearing granite.. Descending this route is more tedious and dangerous than climbing the East Face of Mt. Whitney, which you just did.. It's late in the day, you are tired. Helicopters at 12,000 feet- rah.

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05-26  4-22-05   ATV Endo    Hell's Revenge
   This gentleman went over backwards on the first steep hill of his ride. 13 B 62 and 1 T 14 (that's Pace) were first on the scene. On the cell phone, the RP had reported this incident to be near the "dinosaur tracks", near the beginning of Hell's Revenge. None of us had ever heard of that landmark.
   EMS and GCSAR followed with our stuff. He had possibly a broken femur. Another interesting case of "when the morphine hits, the sense of humor comes back".
Responders: Rex, Bego, Lee, Frank, Barbara
     EMTs: Jeff, Bob, Craig two good ideas Hauke

05-27   4-24-05    Biker Down     Way out Porcupine Rim
   The route dives down off the very prow of a ridge with several places to get big air. This is the move that puts you in the Jackass drainage, across the swale from the beginning of the single track.
   She fell down and broke her clavicle. A cell phone. Someone else's GPS. Perfect coords (thanks Woody).
   Bumpity-bumpity. 9 miles out is alot of bumps. Great views of the Arches NP, out by I-70 and the Book Cliffs. Can see west to "Land's End" at the southern tip of the mesa that takes you to the top of the Flint Trail. Quite the view from there also. Bumpity back out in the grey sunset.
   Highest point on the trail is 6730 feets elevation by Lee's GPS.
Responders: Nancy, Lee, Jim, Sam, Bego
     EMTs: Summer and her Driver

05-28   4-25-05   Overdue Hiker    Tombstone
   T-shirt, shorts, dark, lost. This gal started down toward the cars from the top of the Tombstone before everyone else. When the group got to the cars, no Mary. They went looking. Nope. They called us and kept looking. They found her just before we left the Shed.
Responders: Rex, Bego, Dan, Lee, Barb, Frank, Shawn, Sam, John, TBerry

05-29   4-27-05    BaseJumper Down    Tombstone
   This incident involved the same people and 05- 28. He hit the wall and then landed wrong, like on his butt, which hurt his back. We wheeled him up to the parking lot and the ambulance.
Responders: Rex, Sam, Barb, Frank, Bego, James, Shawn. And Zane Lammert too.
     EMTs: Summer, Chris, Nathen

XX-XX   4-28-05   Search for missing child in town
   The search had been going on for some time before we were paged. The Fire Department was out looking. People checking many places and several suspected sightings. Finally located.
Responders: Frank, Bego and others

05-30   4-29-05    Westwater Canyon
   Sarah's boat flipped in Skull Rapid. She got washed to the left shore just below the rapid while her boat and friends floated downstream out of sight. Stranded, no one around.
   Her boating party finished their trip to the cars and called.
   GCSAR, EMS, NPS and State Parks responded.
   TBerry drove the $180,000 NPS river rescue boat UP from the Cisco takeout to Skull Rapid at night. I would venture to say that's an Olympic Gold task. She was 300' up above the river in a small cave by the time help arrived.

From Barbara 810:
     05-030 4-29-05 Boater on a rock Skull Rapids in Westwater (Colorado River)
   When a raft flipped, a woman ended up in the river on a rock. We requested the park service boat and staged at the Cisco Boat dock. It was a several hour trip up stream to the site. Once the lady was transferred to our boat we were happy to find no major injuries. She had been prepared for the cold water, wearing a wet suit. We arrived home about 2:00 AM.

Responders: Rex, Sam, TBerry, John, Jeff
     NPS: Glenn Sherill, Paul Cowan
     State Parks: Jeff Arbon
     BLM: J. Sering who got the original call
     EMTs: Summer, Phil, Kris

05-31   04-30-05   Camper Falls 60 feet    Kane Creek
   Subject fell over a cliff some time in the morning, suffering head and internal injuries. Friend was asleep so didn't find him for a while. GCSAR and EMS located subject and called the CareFlight helicopter. More to the story ........................

From Barbara 810:
     05-031 04-30-05 Fallen Camper Kane Creek E/O the turn off to Hurrah Pass
   The page blared about 10 AM. While on the cliff edge near camp, a rock dropped out from beneath the victim. He fell 80 feet and was complaining of neck and back pain. A friend had worked his way down and placed a sleeping bag over the victim to help keep him warm.
   We had a member direct emergency traffic in and keep others out.
   The victim was lowered the last 10 feet to the bottom of the cliff then carried to the LZ in an open space near Kane Creek.
   As we were driving back up Kane Creek Road (thinking of a late breakfast) we heard parts of another page out.

Responders: Rex, Frank, Sam, TBerry, Zane, Barbara, Jon, Jeff and Jason Arches 224
     EMTs: Summer, James, Kris

05-32   4-30-05   ATV Rollover   Bull Canyon ( paged just as 05- 31 ended)
   ATV rollover, and then it rolled over his leg and ankle.
   Located subject in Bull Canyon. Transported by Ranger to lower Gemini parking lot at Hwy 191.

From Barbara 810:
     05-032 04-30-05 ATV Accident Bull Canyon below Gemini Bridges
   While still deep in Kane Creek Canyon, returning to town from the previous incident we heard radio traffic indicating a SAR page out but not the page itself. Some members returned to the shed to get the Rangers and some ATVs. Others went direct to the staging area. One tow vehicle suffered a breakdown enroute.
   We sent the ATVs, the lifted Bronco and a Ranger with an EMT in from the lower Gemini Bridges trailhead. The subject was carried out on the litter on the back of the Ranger.
Responders: Rex, Frank, Sam, Barbara, Jon Jeff

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Glen Canyon Operations/Lake Powell    Update From: Tom Ryan    04 May 2005

   In May 2005, a volume of 605,000 acre-feet is scheduled to be released from Lake Powell, which is an average of 9,800 cubic feet per second On Mondays through Saturdays in May, daily fluctuations due to load following will likely vary between a low of about 7,000 cfs (during late evening and early morning off-peak hours) to a high of about 13,000 (during late afternoon and early evening on-peak hours). On Sundays, releases will likely vary between a low of about 7,000 cfs during off-peak hours to a high of about 11,500 cfs during on-peak. Over Memorial Day weekend, there are four days where steady releases of 8,000 cfs will be scheduled. This steady 8,000 cfs release is being made as part of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center's annual over flight for data collection essential for research and long-term monitoring of the Grand Canyon.Releases will be ramped down the afternoon of May 26 so that the 8,000 cfs release is achieved by 6 p.m. mountain standard time. The 8,000 cfs flow will then be maintained through the holiday weekend until Tuesday morning (May 31), when a normal load-following pattern is scheduled to be reestablished. It is possible, however, that a return to a load-following release pattern may be reinstated on Memorial Day (May 30). It is also possible that the steady release of 8,000 cfs may be extended for up to 3 additional days.
   A volume of 800,000 acre-feet is scheduled to be released in June. This is an average flow of 13,400 cfs.The exact load-following pattern has not yet been finalized, but releases in June are likely to vary between a low of about 9,000 cfs to a high of about 17,000 cfs. Because of the draw down condition of Lake Powell, releases from Lake Powell in water year 2005 are being scheduled to meet the annual release objective of 8.23 million acre-feet.

 

Upper Colorado River Basin Hydrology

   The Colorado River Basin has now completed 5 consecutive years of extreme drought. In the summer of 1999, Lake Powell was essentially full with reservoir storage at 97 percent of capacity. Since that time, inflow volumes have been below average for 5 consecutive water years. Total unregulated inflow to Lake Powell in water year 2004 was only 51 percent of average. Unregulated inflow in water years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 was 62, 59, 25, and 51 percent of average, respectively. Inflow in water year 2002 was the lowest ever observed since the completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.
   Hydrologic conditions have improved over the past 8 months in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Since September 2004, precipitation in the Upper Basin has been above average. Rains in the fall of 2004 helped reduce soil moisture deficits caused by the drought. River flows also responded to the fall rains with increased flows. November 2004, for instance, was the first month with above average inflow to Lake Powell since September of 1999.
   Snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin ranged from average to moderately above average throughout the winter of 2004-2005. Snowpack in the Basin above Lake Powell is currently 114 percent of average (as of May 4, 2005). Snowmelt runoff began in April 2005, with inflow to Lake Powell increasing significantly in mid-April.Observed inflow so far in 2005 has been as high as 27,800 cfs (April 27, 2004). This flow exceeds last year's peak inflow (21,400 cfs on May 14, 2004). Inflow has declined somewhat in the last week in response to cooler than average temperatures in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Observed inflow on May 4, 2005, was 24,900 cfs. Inflow is expected to increase substantially in the latter part of May.Peak daily inflow is likely to exceed 50,000 cfs in May and/or June of this year.
   Total unregulated inflow to Lake Powell in April 2005 was 1,188,000 acre-feet, which is 121 percent of average.
   Lake Powell reached a low elevation on April 8, 2005, at 3,555.1 feet (144.9 feet from full pool). Reservoir storage had declined to 33 percent of live capacity.The last time Lake Powell had been this low was in May 1969.The water surface elevation has been increasing since April 8. As of May 4, 2005, the elevation of Lake Powell is 3,564.5 feet (135.5 feet from full pool). Current storage is 8.65 million acre-feet (36 percent of live capacity).
   The National Weather Service (in their May final inflow forecast) is forecasting 8.6 million acre-feet of unregulated inflow to Lake Powell this April through July.This is 108 percent of average.