13 Feb 99, 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm, Snowy Range.  While patrolling on
Susan Swapp-Trueblood's crew at the Snowy Range Ski Area, Janet Smith,
Jerry Hamann, and Frank Lamb were alerted to the report of one or
more snowmobile accidents in the Green Rock area.  We spent some time
in the Patrol Room and the Ticket Office trying to gather as much
information as possible from the Laramie/Albany Records and Communications
center.  Information was still sketchy, but an ambulance from Laramie
was enroute to the top of Highway 130 (Green Rock Parking Area) for
an injured snowmachiner, while a person or persons at the Snowy Mountain
Lodge were reporting one or more accidents or events to investigate in
the Brown's Peak and Headquarters Park areas.

Management at the Ski Area arranged for two snowmachines and
drivers with two rescue toboggans (one from the Sheriff's Office Cache,
the other from the cache above the rental building).  Janet and Jerry
proceeded with these machines and drivers, with release from Susan, to
Green Rock and Snowy Mountain Lodge.  We encountered no indication of
an emergency from the west Barber Lake Road entrance to 130 up to Snowy Mountain
Lodge.

At the lodge, an Albany County Sheriff's Deputy was accompanying two
individuals associated with a potential Search and Rescue event in
the Headquarter's Park / Silver Lake area.  Reports of an event at 
Brown's Peak were apparently unfounded.  We were soon joined by
two Forest Service law enforcement personnel who had assisted another
Albany County Sheriff's Deputy, EMTs from Centennial, and Laramie
Ambulance EMTs at a snowmachine accident near the parking lot
below the west Barber Lake Road entrance on 130.

The individuals from the Headquarter's Park / Silver Lake area reported
seeing a flare pass overhead approximately 1/4 mile north of their
position while snowmachining on the west side of the divide earlier
in the morning.  They investigated but were unable to discover the
source.  They proceeded to Snowy Mountain Lodge to report the incident.

Leaving one of the rescue toboggans at the lodge, our group (eight
machines and ten searchers in strength) proceeded over Highway 130
at approximately 12:30 pm.  The reporting individuals guided us into
the region of "Vivian's Cabin" where the approximate position of the
flare observation occurred.  We investigated several clearings,
small lakes and popular winter travel corridors, stopping periodically
to signal (3 pistol shots into a backstop) and listen.  Conditions
were ideal for sounding, with little or no perceptible wind, a bright
and clear day.  We observed no snowmachine or ski tracks out of the
ordinary, neither heard or saw any reply to the signal shots.  At
2:00 pm we agreed to terminate the search.

Enroute back to the east side, we relayed our position and
intended travel plans via Centennial VIS who was to telephone our status
to the Snowy Range Ski Area.  Nordic patrollers in the field (Henry
Heasler and Myron Allen) maintained contact with us between nearly
unreadable conditions atop the snowmachines.  As we neared the Brooklyn
Lake Road area, Centennial VIS broadcast the report of another potential
accident in the Green Rock area.  Upon arrival at Green Rock, we
met with Myron and Henry, scouted the parking area, found no confirmation
of the report, and proceeded on to the Snowy Range Ski Area, returning
at approximately 2:45 pm.