Over the new years long weekend our team was called out to assist Ridge Meadows SAR for a missing person in Golden Ears Park. Unfortunately the task ended in a fatality. Since I decided to try “vlogging” (Video Blogging) this year, I…
Category: SAR Day
A year-long project where I logged every SAR team related event that occurred.
SARDay
In 2010 I started a series of posts where I blogged about everything related to SAR that I did in one year. I also added up all of the hours spent on training, tasks and other SAR related things. I…
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SARDay 2010–2011 Wrap Up
I started tracking the time I spend doing SAR-related tasks a year ago today. I was prompted to do so partially because I was watching a friend of mine post every day that he went skiing or mountain biking. The…
SARDay 111: Rescue scenario @ Buntzen Lake
The very best way to train for SAR is to do SAR; in the absence of actual subjects getting lost, we are more than happy to pretend to be subjects ourselves. Designing a scenario is tricky. A real SAR task…
SARDays 107-110
SARDays 107-110
SARDay 104-106: Organized Avalanche Response
What a week of weather events; huge amounts of snow, wind and a buried icy crust layer. Several natural avalanche observed on Mount Seymour, and skier triggered and natural avalanches all over the place. What better time for an avalanche…
SARDay 103: Lost hiker on Eagle Ridge
At around 22:00 on Monday night the team was paged by Coquitlam RCMP to search for a hiker reported overdue on Eagle Ridge. This was my first search as a SAR manager in training, so I was privy to the…
SARDays 73 to 102, the winter lull
SARDays 73 to 102
Some numbers on a large search
Most searches are short; someone goes missing and we head out and find them, someone calls on a cell phone and we guide them in, or we do a medical response. We divide searches into operational periods, a fancy term…
SAR Day 73: quick rescue in Squamish
I’ve been living in Squamish, BC, and since I’ve been here I asked my good friends at Squamish SAR to add me to their call out list. This summer it’s worked out quite well, as they tend to have interesting…
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