{"id":258,"date":"2005-08-07T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/albuquerque-mountain-rescue-council\/"},"modified":"2005-08-07T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:38:47","slug":"albuquerque-mountain-rescue-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Group Comes to Aid of Stranded or Injured Hikers in the Sandias\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/cgi-bin\/print_it.pl?page=\/news\/metro\/378181metro08-07-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Group Comes to Aid of Stranded or Injured Hikers in the Sandias<\/a><br \/>\nBy Toby Smith<br \/>\nJournal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>    Chances are you won&#8217;t bump into an Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council volunteer unless you are in trouble. Big trouble.<\/p>\n<p>    Say you&#8217;re a hiker in the Sandia Mountains who wanders off course, slips and turns his ankle. Suddenly you&#8217;re stuck with a bum foot and no idea which way to go.<\/p>\n<p>    It&#8217;s getting late when your friends in town start to worry about you. That&#8217;s when the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council generally gets a telephone call, usually from the State Police.<\/p>\n<p>    Fifty years old this year, the AMRC is a wilderness and search and rescue team, one of several working in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>    The group got going in February 1955 when people were needed to recover and bring down bodies from the TWA airplane crash in the Sandias. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The Sandias are much more complex than they look from the city,&#8221; says Scherzinger, a Sandia Labs aerospace engineer. &#8220;They&#8217;re pretty big, and it&#8217;s easy for people to get lost up there.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Albuquerque Mountain Rescue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqmountainrescue.org\/a\/index.cfm\">Albuquerque Mountain Rescue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Group Comes to Aid of Stranded or Injured Hikers in the Sandias By Toby Smith Journal Staff Writer Chances are you won&#8217;t bump into an Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council volunteer unless you are in trouble. Big trouble. Say you&#8217;re a hiker in the Sandia Mountains who wanders off course, slips and turns his ankle. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}