TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR) shared on Wednesday that it was mobilized to assist an injured skier on No Name Peak, south of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, on Tuesday, April 2.
The agency received the call at 2:19 p.m. on Tuesday to help the 37-year-old local man, according to TCSAR’s announcement. The skier had fallen through a cliff band on the mountain’s northeast slope and injured himself. TCSAR’s helicopter team was dispatched along with two ski patrollers from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. No Name Peak is most often reached through the backcountry gates of the resort.
After the helicopter landed in the bowl below the peak, TCSAR volunteers rigged the helicopter and the patient for short-hauling. Short-hauling involves a helicopter suspending a person from a 150 to 250-foot rope. This technique is often used where conditions are too steep or rocky for a safe helicopter landing.
The skier was transported in a “screamer suit — a full-body harness that gets clipped into the long line,” and was delivered to the heli landing zone at the base of Teton Village, where he was awaited by a Jackson Hole Fire/EMS ambulance.
“Thanks to the JHMR Ski Patrol and Jackson Hole Fire/EMS for the partnership in helping to get this skier out of the backcountry and to higher medical care,” TCSAR wrote on Facebook.
