Lake Davis Op: General Membership [Level 1] Op

NORTHERN CAL OP - GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
Both General and Advanced operators may attend
Day time operation followed by multiple night recon trips (monitored)

(updated July 14, 2014)

Team Surefire

Emmanuel Tsompanas (team leader), Leigh Allen, Bryan Lee, Chris "Black Dog" May, Richard "Ric" Dill, Scott Serl

Team LandOps

Zeev Haskal, Adam Spiker, Russ Laraway. The team leader is To Be Determined.

Base Camp - Grasshopper Flat Campground
N 39.890092°
W 120.477112°

Reservations Link

http://www.recreation.gov/camping/grasshopper-flat/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=71613

If Grasshopper Flat campground is full, overflow will be Grizzly Campground (1/2 mile south)

Lodging: If operators do not wish to camp, there are motels available in Portola, CA (9 miles south of basecamp)

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Mapping Links
Lake Davis and Operations Area (click here) (http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=39.91529,-120.57123&z=13&b=t&o=f,r&n=1,0.25)

Maps are in Files section. This is a link to additional Forest Service Maps (http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/plumas/maps-pubs/?cid=FSM9_034923)

Daylight Operation to be conducted near Grizzly Valley and Grizzly Ridge on various off road trails. Staging area will be Grasshopper Flat Campground. Op will consist of two teams [SUREFIRE] and [LANDOPS] plus one [MOBILE COMMAND] field team and [NET CONTROL] located at Grasshopper Flat.

Day Op is planned to last 3 hours

Break for Dinner (bring your own food) Pot Luck (weather permitting) at designated site (to be announced).

Night Op to be conducted around Lake Davis with line of sight tasks across lake using high ground in surrounding mountains. Op will consist of Two Teams; [SUREFIRE] and [LAND OPS] with a [COMMAND ONE] mobile field command element and [NET CONTROL] at Grasshopper Flat Camp.

Night Op is planned to last 2 hours (3 hrs if challenges arise) (4 hrs if in real trouble occurs) (All night if search and rescue is required).

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This event will focus on navigation and radio comms on remote 4x4 trails (easy to moderate).

Team operators from Southern California will coordinate and travel up together on the morning of Friday, July 18th. An advance team team leaves Thursday morning, July 17 to prepare the area of operation.

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COMMS
Simplex: 147.480 alternate 146.460 (because CA uses 15 kHz spacing and NV uses 20 kHz spacing, using these frequencies avoids conflict with either bandplan)
Local repeaters: Gibraltar Peak 146.700- PL 131.8 Sierra City 145.170- PL 114.8 Quincy 145.470- PL 123.0
Linked repeaters: Mt. Rose 147.150- PL 123.0 Reno (NE) 147.030+ PL 123.0 Reno (W) 147.210+ PL 100.0 These repeaters are more distant and might not be usable during the Ops but they should allow teams to contact net ops while they are enroute to Grizzly Valley.

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More info to be posted AS EVENT DRAWS NEAR