On Friday, June 3rd, AVSAR President Crystal Wilson was contacted by the State Patrol Dispatch in regards to a missing hiker near Culebra Peak in Costilla County. The missing hiker was last heard from whenContinue reading
10/12-16 – Search for Madeline Baharlou-Quivey
On October 16, 2022 AVSAR and Saguache County Search & Rescue concluded their Recovery Operations for Madeline Bahralou-Quivey. In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, October 12, 2021 AVSAR, along with Saguache County SAR, Chaffee CountyContinue reading
09/20-27 – Search for Vaughn Fetzer
Alamosa Volunteer Search And Rescue has made the very difficult decision to suspend all Search efforts in the Search for Vaughn Fetzer. AVSAR conducted this mission up to the edge of our acceptable level ofContinue reading
09/10-11 – Cliffed Out Hiker on Ellingwood Point
On September 10, AVSAR Received a call of a hiker who cliffed out just below the Ellingwood Point summit.
08/28 – Exhausted Hiker at Lake Como
AVSAR leadership received a call from the State Patrol Dispatch Center in regards to a male hiker who was suffering from extreme heat exhuastion/heat stroke. Teams were immediately activated and a request was put outContinue reading
06/19-20 – Saguache County Mutual Aid in Pico Aislado
On Saturday June 19, Saguache County Search and Rescue was activated for a mountaineer that had fallen while climbing Pico Aislado in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains southeast of Crestone, CO. The caller reported hisContinue reading
04/11/2021 – Lost Hiker in Willow Lake Area
In the late evening of Sunday, April 11th, AVSAR was paged out to assist Saguache County Search & Rescue for a hiker in the Willow Lake Area who was showing signs of hypothermia. AVSAR respondedContinue reading
10/11-15 Search for Joy Cipoletti
On Sunday, October 11, 2020 Alamosa Volunteer Search and rescue was contacted about a missing female hiker, who was last heard from at 1500hours from the summit of ellingwood point. AVSAR immediately sent out aContinue reading
9/6/2020 Missing Hiker
On Sunday 9/6, AVSAR was called out for three hikers who had become cliffed out on their descent down from Ellingwood Point, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The three hikers were cliffed out onContinue reading
07/27/2020 Overdue Hikers
At approximately 1530hours on July 27 AVSAR was paged out for two overdue hikers on the Mount Blanca Massif. The two hikers were last seen at the Holbrook Creek crossing at 2030hours on 7/26, whenContinue reading