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SARDays 107-110

By Michael Coyle Posted on 19/02/2011 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day 1 Comment
SARDays 107-110

SARDays 107-110

Tagged with: SAR, SARDay

SARDays 73 to 102, the winter lull

By Michael Coyle Posted on 17/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day No Comments
SARDays 73 to 102, the winter lull

SARDays 73 to 102

Tagged with: avalanche, SAR, SARDay, training, Tyler Wright

The UBC VOC and Group Sizes

By Michael Coyle Posted on 11/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry 8 Comments
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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Tagged with: backcountry, opinion, rant

Safe places to Snowshoe

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry 2 Comments
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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Tagged with: free, opinion, snow, snowshoe

SAR Day 72: AGM and hours not tracked.

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/10/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day No Comments

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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Tagged with: numbers, SAR, SARDay

A different kind of emergency

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/08/2010 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments

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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Tagged with: emergency, software, technology

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 No Comments
Busy Week(s): SARDay 15, 16,17,18, 19 and 20
Roland Webb, 1975-2013

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

Tagged with: SAR, SARDay
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