Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion CLMRG assists in Lone Pine rescue

The team members of CLMRG and Inyo SAR are all unpaid volunteers, who have other jobs from which they are pulled when a SAR call-out occurs. They are not full-time, ready to go in an instant rescuers, like the ones in LA. It takes time to collect information, gather assests, and plan the op.

Rappelling at 3 AM is very, very dangerous. You ought to try it some time, just for a taste of what SAR climbers have to do. Perhaps you should consider becoming a volunteer on a SAR team; ya might just learn something and do some good.

All in all, it was a very well executed operation, and everyone survived.