CHINA LAKE MOUNTAIN RESCUE GROUP
NOTE: To contact CLMRG in an emergency, please contact the Kern County Sheriff's Office Com Center (661 or 800-861-3110) or the China Lake Police (760-939-3323).
About CLMRG
Group
Photo 3/06
Points
of Contact- Officers and Committee Chairs
Current
Training Schedule
Talus Pile - our
Newsletter; contains current training schedule, operations reports,
various bits of news, etc.
Talus Piles #1-99, 1969-1996
Talus Piles #100-140, 1997-2006
NEW, COLORFUL April 2008 Talus Pile with 2007 summaries, etc.
Celebrating 50 Years of Search and Rescue Service 1958-2008 The China Lake Mountain Rescue Group (CLMRG) will hold a 50th Anniversary celebration and banquet on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at the Kerr McGee Center in Ridgecrest, CA. Festivities will begin with a no-host cocktail hour followed by a buffet dinner. The cost per person will be $40. The evening will highlight several speakers who will share their experiences with CLMRG, and note the advances in search and rescue techniques and technology over the years. Please contact Elaine Riendeau, elaine.riendeau@clmrg.org, 760-446-9016, for information or to submit your address for an invitation. More details here
Know your Knots? Check this website out! Animated knots
More Knots! http://www.abc-of-rockclimbing.com/howto/learn_climbing_knots.asp
Photos from Rock Recert in Alabama Hills, 3/1/08 Bill Stratton's photos
We submitted this for an MRA award for Outstanding Public Education programs - our summer class stuff and our "Child Lost, but Found" programs. Word Doc. with photos.
Training Manual
- everything that makes CLMRG tick
Chapter 1, Standard Operating Procedures,
training requirements, qualifications, how we run operations,
etc.
Chapter 2, ByLaws - what really makes
us tick
Chapter 3 Qualifications and Training
by category, lists for Quals, personal equipment, climbs, training,
etc.
Chapter 4,Technical Rescue Equipment
and Techniques- our secrets to success- is currently being revised. Figured out
some new cool ways to do things!
Images
from a training practice
CRMRA Rock Recertification at Fossil Falls, March 2001
A paper
on Giardia and Giardiasis by Dr. Bob Rockwell. What it is,
where it is, your chances of catching it, drinking Sierra water,
etc.
Long bibliography. Bob invites
comments. You might ask him for a Word copy of the document
or print from the pdf formatting on the Sierra Club page because
the html formatting for the web version isn't quite as shown in
hard copy. Footnotes come out in pdf as does original formatting,
e.g. the little critters are 9-15 microns long, not mm.! Makes
a difference.
Wanna see a really COOL picture of Whitney trail in the winter?!!
click here
And the same spot in summer... Pretty impressive. Click
here
Links
Funded in part by the United
Way of Indian Wells Valley 
CLMRG, the China Lake Mountain Rescue Group, is an all-volunteer,
non-profit organization which provides search and rescue services
on an on-call basis. It is sponsored by the Naval Air Weapons
Station at China Lake, CA, responds to the Kern County Sheriff
Department, and is a member of the Mountain
Rescue Association (MRA). The primary mission of the China
Lake Mountain Rescue Group is search and rescue of lost or injured
persons, any season of the year, in the mountains and desert or
in any type of wilderness terrain. Our primary area of response
is Kern County and the Eastern Sierra of Inyo and Mono Counties
in California, but we can go any place in the world, as needed.
(We've done that...)
A secondary mission of CLMRG is to provide wilderness safety education
to members of our Ridgecrest, CA community.
CLMRG trains year round in a variety of search and rescue skills. Our current capabilities include general mountaineering and wilderness survival skills, high-angle rock, ice and snow rescue, step-by-step mantracking , advanced first-aid and CPR, radio communications, procedures for working with helicopters, Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) direction finding (for locating downed aircraft), and SAR management using the Incident Command System, (ICS).
Most of our members are highly experienced mountaineers with knowledge of wilderness and glacier travel and crevasse rescue. Most of our experience is in the Sierra Nevada, but many members have experience in other mountain ranges as well, such as the Cascades and Rockies. Several members have summited Mt. McKinley/Denali, and other high peaks around the world.
In addition, CLMRG remains involved in such community education activities as the "Lost, but Found" program on tips for parents and kids how not to get lost, or to get found if you are which is presented regularly to local elementary students, and our annual Basic Mountaineering Course in June and July, a six-week introductory class in all aspects of mountaineering with an emphasis on safety.
CLMRG is funded primarily under the United Way program, but receives some other public donations. Funding is applied toward (1) updating search and rescue equipment such as stretchers, climbing ropes and hardware, radios, and first aid supplies, and (2) SAR operation expenses, such as gasoline. All CLMRG members provide their own individual equipment.
Snail Mail contact: China Lake Mountain Rescue Group, P.O. Box 2037, Ridgecrest, CA 93556; phone in our "hut" with message capabilities is (760) 939-3363. To talk with real people, see Points of Contact
