Sierra Madre Search and Rescue's Long Day

Meanwhile, by the next morning, the team would be getting called to Chantry Flats for a technical rescue:

The first call for the day came at 11:30 a.m. with reports of a hiker stranded over the side of the trail below Chantry Flat.  A high angle rescue was executed to get the uninjured hiker back to the trail.  

And just as the group was completing that, there was a call for lost hikers somewhere in the Mt. Wilson area:

As the rescue was concluding, SMSR received a request from Altadena Mountain Rescue (AMRT) to assist them in the search for two hikers who were lost in the Mount Wilson area and reportedly suffering from dehydration and exhaustion.  Due to limited information about the specific location of the hikers, search crews were dispatched to multiple locations to hike the trails and locate the subjects.  Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were able to locate the hiker’s car near the trailhead at Cobb Estates and teams began to focus their efforts in that area.   

But before the group could finish with that rescue, team members were called to go help out with a rescue at the infamous Eaton Canyon, where hikers frequently end up climbing up into steep, dangerous cliff terrain:

While search crews were redeploying, a rescue call in Eaton Canyon was dispatched and 7 personnel from SMSR responded to Eaton Canyon to assist in the rescue of 3 hikers stranded near the 2nd waterfall.  SMSR joined LA County Fire and LASD’s Air Rescue 5 on the incident.  Two of the subjects were hoisted from their location by Air 5  and the third subject was lowered by rope rescue system to the canyon bottom by SMSR.  The subjects were uninjured and escorted out of the canyon    

And then finally, the lost Mt Wilson hikers were located:

During the Eaton Canyon rescue the missing Mt. Wilson hikers were successfully located.  One of the hikers was transported to the hospital for treatment.  The operations were secured by 4:30 p.m.