Well it came... Just thought I would share the latest rescue with you all. Call came in Sunday night around 7pm for 6 females (ages: 42, 16, 16, 17, 17, 14) who took the Embudo trail (SAR day trail) up around 12 pm and encountered snow then lost the trail. They had a hard time getting out of it and became dehydrated and hypothermic along the way. They were all wearing sweats, had ran out of food and water, did not have anything to start a fire and no light source. They call 911 who advised them to stay put until rescue arrived. I quickly "obtained" their cell phone number and advised them to head down the mountain carefully toward Albuquerque and got a good idea of where they were at. I knew that they were in either Embudo or Embudito canyon, which is 2 canyons to the North of Embudo. I sent a team up Embudo and I headed up Embudito. Approximentaly 2 miles up Embudito canyon I gained voice contact with the party and a few minutes later was in contact with the group. As soon as I started to assess the first patient I see one vomiting heavily out of the corner of my eye. Priorities switched to that patient. She was cold and a little out of it. Last oral intake was 4 hours ago and she had apparently fallen a few times while heading down the trail, however no trauma noted on head to toe, no pertinent history. Hot chocolate was brewed for all and a warm IV established for the vomiter. Approx. 20 minutes on scene and we started down trail with the group. Took about an hour to get down. Good short rescue. You can see how things could have gotten much worse if more patients were vomiting ect... We were also lucky that we could hike them down.
Anyway.... Thanks again for the great card and gift. Hope to see you all soon.
-Jason
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