Monthly Archives: August 2010

Huge slide near Meager Creek

It’s almost amusing to see how media agencies attempting to describe where Meager Creek is. The mix of “north of“, “West of” “x km from” or even “near x” etc is confusing to say the least, especially when it’s basically

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SAR Day 45 and 46: Mountain Rescue training

If anyone has been following the blog you will see the progression in the SAR curriculum; in the spring the courses involve navigation, then the rope rescue course kicks in. Then we do technical travel skills. At this point in

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SAR Day 44: For god’s sake, make the beeping stop!!

I really shouldn’t complain, but 5 calls in 12 hours is quite a lot. Sunday night started with a late evening page for a lost person near Burnaby Lake. I did not respond to the call, but I did monitor

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A different kind of emergency

I’m used to the pager going off in the middle of the night, but believe it or not I have had “emergencies” in my other line of work (software engineering) as well. One such happened last Wednesday. In my day

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SAR Day 42 and 43:

Some SAR Days are exciting, and some are not. On the weekend the team was paged out for several missing hikers; I did not attend the search, but from time differential between when the pager went off and the stand

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