A snowmobiler became seperated from his 4 friends at about 5 pm the evening of March 5 after descending from Sardine Peak. TNSAR was called out at 5 am and was at the Little Truckee Summit at 8 am. Washoe Co SAR had searched through the night with 2 snowcats and 2 snowmobilers but had found nothing. 6 TNSAR snowmobiles searched around Sardine Peak, north and south on Smithneck Valley Road, including Jones Valley Road, the route to the lost person's home in Russel Valley, and around Stampede Resevoir, while skiers were transported to Sardine Peak by snowcat and searched down from there. The RPs were very confused about where they had last seen the victim and the tracks of the previous nights searchers complicated things. At about 2 pm the sheriff coordinator received a call that the victim was at Bordertown on 395 at the Ca/Nv line. He had spent the night bivouaced near Babbit Peak, 8 miles northeast of Sardine Peak, after his snowmobile had run out of gas, and then had hiked out to Bordertown.
Sheriff	Dispatch	Comm Van	Truck	Skiers	Snow Cats	Snowmobiles
Fred Carey Matt	Jackie Thomas Marty Schoonmaker	Steve Twomey		Doug Read Sarah Lagano Steve Twomey Bernie Mellor Jim Reinstra	Scoop Remenih	Ray O'Brien Scott Baumgartner Bill Koplin Steve Hoyt David Hopp Dirk Schoonmaker