Rocky Mountain Region of the Mountain Rescue Association

07/18/2024

and just launched their 5th Annual Search and Rescue Award! 🎉 This year, Rocky Talkie awarded 6 volunteer underfunded SAR teams a total of $75,000 from their pledge to donate $2 from every radio purchased to underfunded teams across the country.

⛑️ Featured Rescue of the Year: Black Canyon of the Gunnison SAR

🎥 Head to rockytalkie.com/sar-award to watch the full rescue film about the Featured Rescue by renowned filmmaker

🏆 Rocky Talkie’s 2024 Search and Rescue Giveaway is live! Enter to win $5,000 in funding for your local SAR team + a safety prize pack for yourself! Check out the details at rockytalkie.com/sar-award.

02/25/2024

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The Mountain Rescue Association and the Rocky Mountain Region sends our thoughts to the family of Steve Zuckerman. Steve was a force in backcountry search and rescue, and was a driver in the formation of the Colorado Hoist Rescue Team, on which he served as a Rescue Tech. Steve was a former member of Vail Mountain Rescue.

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Our hearts are broken. Steve Zuckerman, a full-time paramedic with Eagle County Paramedic Services, died while responding to a backcountry rescue call today in Vail. He was 61 years old.

“Steve was one of the helpers,” said Eagle County Paramedic Services CEO Brandon Daruna. “He never missed an opportunity to contribute and his death leaves a giant void in our organization and community.”

Steve worked Beaver Creek Ski Patrol for more than 25 years and started as a part-time paramedic with Eagle County Paramedic Services in April 2008. He joined our full-time staff in May 2013. He was a member of the Search and Rescue team, a field trainer and was in training as a critical care paramedic. He also served as medical director for the World Cup races in Beaver Creek.

In a social media post for Eagle County Paramedic Services, Steve wrote, “EMS is a team sport and I work on an amazing team. Each day brings new challenges and new opportunities to practice field emergency medicine and to make a small difference.”

Steve made a difference every day; there are really no words.

02/25/2024

08/29/2023

Happy International Mountain Rescue Day!!!

In 2022 the membership of ICAR - at the assembly of delegates - unanimously voted on a proposal by the Mountain Rescue Austria to the establish an International Mountain Rescue Day (IMRD).

The purpose of the IMRD is to celebrate the dedication and selfless work that mountain rescue people do to keep everyone safe in the mountains around the world.

As a proud member of ICAR, the Mountain Rescue Association Rocky Mountain Region is honored to share and celebrate this legacy.

05/25/2023

On May 13th successfully completed their reaccreditation! Great work Fremont! Thank you for being wonderful hosts for evaluators from around the region and thank you to evaluators for traveling to help make recerts in 2023 happen. This concludes the 2023 region reaccreditations.

05/04/2023

Summit County Rescue Group coordinated a helicopter hoist of a hiker who became cliffed-out between Peak 2 and Peak 3 on Monday afternoon. Around 3:45 p.m., the all-volunteer rescue team received a report that a...

05/04/2023

05/03/2023

Last weekend, Vail Mountain Rescue Group successfully completed their reaccreditation! Congratulations to the team! The effort and hard work you put into your reaccreditation were noticed by all of the evaluators and observers. Thank you to VMRG for being an absolutely amazing host for the evaluation team! Thank you to all of the evaluators and observers who took time out of their weekends to be part of the reaccreditation process.

04/25/2023

On April 15th, successfully completed their reaccredidiation! Every 5 years, region teams must complete a recertification test comprised of search, high angle rescue, scree rescue, avalanche rescue, and winter technical rescue scenarios. This was the first of three total reaccredidations scheudled to take place in 2023. Huge thank you to for being very accomidating for the evaluators and observers and thank you to the evaluators and observers for making time to travel and be part of the reaccredidation.

03/27/2023