8:30 am, I arrive at the AMRG cache to load gear that needs to be kept dry and warm into the rescue trailer and to hook it up to my 2005 Nissan Titan. I meet 3 of the probationary members there who graduate basic training today. I tell them what to grab a where to find the lists of what is not kept in the trailer. Mainly Coms and Med gear. All hardware is left in. We load up in two trips and takes about 20 minutes.
We drive to the command center and I sign in. I am designated leader of strike team A. I am to take the VHS repeater and find a suitable location to set it up between the command center and the crash scene. I am assigned to take Clair, who is an experience SAR worker and is also a scent dog handler, but she has never set up the repeater and needs to learn how. Since she is a dog handler she will often one of the first out in the Helo and needs to be able to set up the repeater.
Today, however we do not have AST Helo 1 support due to the heavily wooded area we are operating in. I have to haul the repeater (stored in a modified pelican case and weighing 50 pounds) about a mile, up hill, thought the snow in the woods. Yea. I grab a sholvel and lay it on the ground, I set the repeater case on the scoop and with some webbing I attach it and make a long sling. Ta-da, I have a sled. It's so early in the season, no one had brought a proper sled, I had to make one.
Clair and I made our way to hill 1244556b and climbed to the top and set up the reaperter. This consists of extending the antenna attaching it to a tree and plugging in the cable to the case, attaching the case also to the tree and toggling on the power button.
By the time we reach IC there are two teams in the field responding to two patients in two locations. One called in on her own radio (or one in the emergency kit from the down aircraft) and the other was spotted by the AFD helo. Both had GPS cords but it was unknown which datum they were in. Most everyone uses WGS 84, but Alaska maps are in NAD 27. (not to mention most were updated last in the 50's and never field checked).
Team 2 has reached the patient spotted by AFD 1 and is requesting the wheel for the litter and assistance for evac. I gather my team get the GPS cords from team 2 leader and head out after plotting his location into my new VISTA HCx.
An hour later we are zeroing in on there location and found them just as they are finishing packaging up the patient in the hypo bag on the litter. 
....to be continued