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Once or twice a year SAR/SO will knock on my trailer door and ask for assistance with a call.
Every couple of years someone asks our group for assistance. About 10 years ago, one rider went down a gulley and stuck his sled, his buddy caught up with us on the trail headed back to town and asked for help. Dude was fortunate there was enough cell coverage to make a call, we had him start hiking up since we weren't comfortable going down there. Got him and his buddy back to town around midnight that night. The next day, asked a buddy who's a guide in teh area about access.. had GPS tracks, pulled that into google earth, scoped out the area before leaving that morning. Ended up being a ~20mi detour to recover that snowmobile, and the next chute over avalanched sometime during the night. So we made a good choice there.
I've run into those guys a couple times now, and their attitude about mountain riding and being equipped for situations really changed. Now they carry GPS, radios, flashlights, survival gear... all the stuff we had that made a difference that night that they didn't have.
Had to rescue search and rescue once, that was interesting. >pic related
I've done thousands of avalanche rescue scenarios, including two just yesterday.
