Search results for: “Yosemite Search and Rescue”
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Yosemite Accounts for 25% of Annual Search and Rescue Costs
A NPS helo brings in a load of SAR gear before beginning a “rope down”. Photo by Brian Zambrano. A report by two researchers in the field of wilderness medice have come to some interesting conclusions. Yosemite seems to account for 1/4 of Annual NPS Search and Rescue costs at nearly $1.2 million in 2005.…
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Dean Potter and Graham Hunt Killed During BASE Jump Attempt in Yosemite
BASE jumpers Dean Potter and Graham Hunt died after attempting a wingsuit flight from Taft Point.
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Drones in Yosemite
It’s not the banning of the drones people are having an issue with, it’s the regulation cited to do it.
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Hypothermic Climber Rescued from El Captian
Yosemite National Park Rangers and Search and Rescue Personnel were called in to assist a climber on El Capitan Monday after he was forced to spend the night on El Capitan in a snow storm.
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Hiker Rescued From Panorama Trail
On Monday, June 18, 2012, Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue responded to a report of a 63-year-old woman with a compound ankle fracture about a mile-and-a-half down the Panorama Trail near Glacier Point.
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New Art and Theater Programs Fun for All Ages
If you’re planning your vacation and you’re looking for something for the family and kids to do how about checking out some of the new art and theater programs being offered by the Yosemite Conservancy?
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Hiker Missing Near Upper Yosemite Falls
Yosemite National Park is searching for 30 year old George Penca, from Hawthorne, California. Penca, who has been missing since Friday, June 17 was last seen on the Upper Yosemite Fall trail in Yosemite Valley where he was hiking with a group of people from his church.
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3 Climbers Rescued After Night on El Cap
It wasn’t exactly the way most people plan to spend the night in Yosemite.
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Yosemite Visitor Rescued From TIny, Tiny Ledge
They say, “what goes up, must come down” unfortunately sometimes getting down requires the aid of a helicopter, 3 bolts, long ropes and a team Search and Rescue personell. National Parks Traveler: Park dispatch received a cell phone call from climber Daniel Susman around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15th, in which Susman reported that…
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Learn About Safety in Yosemite
Yosemite National Park invites the public to participate in Community safety Day in Yosemite National Park this Friday, June 5, 2009, from 10am to 3pm in the Yosemite Village mall (in front of the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center). Visitors and community members will have the opportunity to see Yosemite’s Mounted Patrol horses, watch search and…