Cliff Team Gallery
The Cliff Team, a technical specialty team of El Dorado County Search and Rescue, is deployed per the direction of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. The focus of the team is the extraction of subjects that are unreachable with non-technical resources. The Cliff Team is trained to perform technical rope rescue operations in wilderness environments, or structures such as bridges and towers. The team performs extrications in the vertical, steep and low angle realms. Read more...
[Photos of Training with California National Guard on January 2012, have been moved to their own page here.]
Buck's Bar Training Site - El Dorado County

Cool Limestone Quarry - Practice isolating bad rope

Cool Limestone Quarry - Practice isolating bad rope (close-up)

Dan rigged for pick-off practice

Descend converting to ascend

Descend converting to ascend (close-up)

Descending on a Petzl ID

Kathy practicing litter scoops

Kristy and Gary at pick-off practice

Using the Aztek as a travel restrict

Personal skills practice

Quarry

RTR training

RTR training (close-up)

Shawn and Gary at pick-off practice

Training with Tuolumne SAR

Close-up

Litter scoop

Littler scoop (close-up)

Preparing for litter scoop

Preparing for litter scoop (close-up)

RTR personal skills practice

Cool Lime Quarry - RTR personal skills training

Cool Limestone Quarry: Using an Arizona Vortex as an artificial high directional

Cindy and Gary

Summer SAREX 2011: Low angle awareness for the ground team

Bucks Bar

Bucks Bar: Rigging for single person pick-off

Shawn and Kristi

Slab Creek Mission

Cosumnes Mine Mission

Bucks Bar: Desi

Bucks Bar: Preparing for a pick-off

Training Tower: Desi descending and self-belay practice
Cindy and Chuck
Gary repacking his AZTEK

Kristi





