At 1226 hours the Team was called to assist a 57-year-old female skier with a reported leg fracture in the Red Cone Bowl area. Rescue Base was established at the Lake Mary Road winter closure. The reporting party was a Mono SAR member recreating in the area. CHP helicopter H42 was requested and accepted the mission.
Field teams were transported via snowmobile and tracked Ranger to the Horseshoe Lake trailhead, and then traveled over snow with skis and splitboards to the subject location below the Mammoth Crest near Crystal Lake.
The subject was treated and packaged, and then hoisted by CHP helicopter H42 who transported the subject to the Mammoth-Yosemite Airport. The subject was then transferred to the care of Mono County Medic Unit 3. The operation was terminated at 1711 hours.
IC: Belcher Ops Leader: Haugh Responders: Quiring, Buchanan, Thompson, Salay, Brownlee, Anderson, Carlson, Zila, Senior