Hello,
Many of you have seen the SAR Blog on Zion National Park’s website, many of you may not have seen it. The purpose of this SAR Blog is to reach the right park visitors with educational lessons from visitors who have needed rescue. Not all of the rescues are canyoneering related but many are. The SAR’s on the blog are not all of the SAR’s in Zion, just the ones that provide excellent opportunities to learn from other’s actions. The reports are not intended to place blame but to objectively analyse the actions that led to the need for rescue. The idea is to learn from others mistakes so you don’t make the same ones.
We are attempting to keep the SAR Blog updated monthly with new entries. New entries were just added a couple of days ago. A link to the blog is found below. Please feel free to share this link with other websites and forums where this educational information may be useful. A message will be posted to this forum the next time the SAR Blog is updated. Thank you,
Zion National Park
hank moon
Another fun’un from the blog, high-sodium finish:
https://www.nps.gov/zion/blogs/yelling-for-help-from-the-top-of-mystery-canyon.htm
ratagonia
Yelling for help from the top of Mystery Canyon
August 07, 2016 Posted by: Zion National Park
On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 9:52am rangers were notified of a man yelling for help from the top of Mystery Canyon as it empties into the Narrows. Rangers hiked in with a line gun and gear needed to get a rope to the top of the last rappel of Mystery Canyon and attempted to make contact with the person at the top of Mystery Falls for over 90 minutes with no success and finally cleared at 12:30.
At approximately 3:30pm, rangers were notified a second time of a man yelling for help from the top of Mystery Canyon as it empties into the Narrows. Rangers hiked in with a line gun and gear needed to get a rope to the top of the last rappel of Mystery Canyon. Rangers met the two walking out from below Mystery Falls. They had been assisted down by another canyoneering party.
The party of two had spent a night in Mystery because they got their two ropes stuck on the previous two rappels and did not have any ascending equipment with them to ascend the rope and fix their issue. The party of two needing rescuing also had no permit for Mystery Canyon and were cited.
Lessons Learned for the Party: Get a permit. If you call to request help stay at your location so rescuers can find you.