Two men went hiking with limited supplies expecting a short hike from Five Lakes to Squaw Valley via the Pacific Crest Trail. After several hours they were directly below the top of Siberia Chair in the Whiskey Creek drainage and one of the men was severely dehydrated and passing out. They called for help by cell phone. Squaw Valley Fire responded first and got CareFlight coming and then TNSAR was dispatched. At the time TNSAR arrived in the Squaw parking lot, CareFlight had just reached the men and were preparing to transport one to the hospital, leaving one man (who was in good shape) and a medic in the field. Because of unknown return time for the helicopter, the decision was made to have TNSAR rendezvous with the 2 people in the field. TNSAR drove to the top of Emigrant Chair and, using GPS coordinates relayed from CareFlight, worked down cross country, arriving with the patient just after CareFlight returned. After the patient was transported the members hiked out and paid for their own expensive hamburgers at The Blue Coyote in Squaw Valley.
Sheriff	Dispatch	Comm Van	Truck	Skiers	Snow Cats	Snowmobiles	Other
Jeff Davis	Marty Schoonmaker Kelli Twomey	Ray O'Brien Kathy Chilcotte Jon Chilcotte		Steve Twomey Jimmy Smith Russ Viehmann David Hopp Dirk Schoonmaker			CareFlight Squaw Valley Fire Dept