At 6:30 pm on Sunday, April 7, 2012 Coquitlam Search and Rescue (Coq SAR) received a call from the Coquitlam RCMP that there were three lost hikers on Eagle Mountain in the Buntzen Lake area. The team was quickly activated due to fading light and Talon Helicopters was dispatched to get team members to the …
When a SAR member tells you he’s going to Everest for 6 weeks, you would assume he’s going to climb it. Not so for Coquitlam SAR team member Glen Foster, at least this time. Although he’s an avid mountaineer and backcountry skier, on this trip he’s going as part of a team of 25 medical …
On Monday, March 19, 2012 Coquitlam Search and Rescue was recognized by Mayor Richard Stewart and the City of Coquitlam council for forty years of service. Also recognized were Dan Cook, for 35 years of service and Ian Cunnings for 30 years of service. The team was formed in 1972 after a search on Burke Mountain …
Video from last summer’s Debeck Creek Rescue (Summer 2012) . http://youtu.be/_s3s-MW0L_g
Several members of the team took the Organized Avalanche Response course on Mount Seymour this weekend during the height of the most recent winter storm. Needless to say, the snow conditions were interesting and many avalanches were observed and triggered during the course of the training. All of our members passed the course. Pictures below. …