Sdmrt.org
Title
San Diego Mountain Rescue
Description
The San Diego Mountain Rescue Team (SDMRT) was organized in 1967 following a dramatic, near-fatal stranding and rescue of two mountain climbers on 10,154' Picacho Del Diablo, deep in Baja California, Mexico. Four members of the Rock Climbing Section of the Sierra Club’s San Diego chapter participated in that rescue. Upon returning to San Diego, they talked about the need to develop a search and rescue team in case others were in trouble, both in Baja and in San Diego County. The team was formed in March 1967, and adopted a profile of Picacho Del Diablo as its emblem.
Following consultations with two experienced California mountain rescue teams, SDMRT recruited new members, purchased equipment, and trained toward the level of proficiency required for admission into the national MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASSOCIATION (MRA). In 1968, the Team passed tests in technical evacuation (cliff rescue), search and tracking procedures, and snow and ice rescue to become the twelfth MRA-accredited mountain rescue team in California.
The primary service area of the San Diego Mountain Rescue Team is San Diego County, California, although we also are the nearest U.S. mountain rescue team to Baja California, and help out with searches in the nearby counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Orange. In the past we have even gone to northern California, the Sierra Nevada, Colorado and New York.
Contact
- San Diego Mountain Rescue Team
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- San Diego CA
- United States 92138
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- +1.8585602760
