RimSAR, Dive Team Save the Day at the 2011 SoCal Tough Mudder Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:26 Donna Newlin ;)
Sgt. Bryan Lane (Dive Team and RimSAR coordinator), Lynn Rivera (National Ski Patrol) and Donna Newlin (Snow Valley Mt. Resort Risk Manager)Over Memorial Day Weekend, the Snow Valley Mountain Resort was host to the 2011 SoCal Tough Mudder, an endurance event billed as “a cross between Ironman and Burning Man”. Entrants run/walk/crawl over a 10-mile course completing a series of pretty insane obstacles, including lake swims, ice baths and even running through a maze of charged electrical wires (not for the faint of heart, zapped Mudders were being knocked to their knees). As a Snow Valley employee, I was asked to coordinate the rescue team for this event. Anticipating that we might need assistance extricating injured Mudders from inaccessible sections of the course, I asked members of the Rim of the World Search & Rescue Team, as well as the Dive Team, to “stand-by” in case we needed them. The folks from RimSAR and the Dive Team did a lot of things this past weekend but the one thing they did not do, especially on Sunday, was “stand-by”.