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SARDays 107-110

By Michael Coyle Posted on 19/02/2011 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with SAR, SARDay
SARDays 107-110

SARDays 107-110

SARDays 73 to 102, the winter lull

By Michael Coyle Posted on 17/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with avalanche, SAR, SARDay, training, Tyler Wright
SARDays 73 to 102, the winter lull

SARDays 73 to 102

The UBC VOC and Group Sizes

By Michael Coyle Posted on 11/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with backcountry, opinion, rant
The UBC VOC and Group Sizes
"plucked" and polished granite cliffs

This post is a bit of a rant, so please skip it if you’re not in the mood. A few years ago a friend and I travelled into the Cerise Creek area for some mountaineering. We were surprised to see …

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Safe places to Snowshoe

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with free, opinion, snow, snowshoe
Safe places to Snowshoe

I see by my server logs that some people visiting the blog are searching for a safe place to snowshoe. With all the injury, death and general mayhem that I usually blog about I thought I’d give a few suggestions. …

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SAR Day 72: AGM and hours not tracked.

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/10/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with numbers, SAR, SARDay

We had our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday the 28th of September. As a Society under the province of British Columbia, we abide by the Society’s Act, and have to have an AGM once a year to elect our executive …

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A different kind of emergency

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/08/2010 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with emergency, software, technology

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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Busy Week(s): SARDay 15, 16,17,18, 19 and 20

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/05/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day Tagged with SAR, SARDay
Busy Week(s): SARDay 15, 16,17,18, 19 and 20
Roland Webb, 1975-2013

SARDay 15, 16,17,18, 19 and 20

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