Are “selfies” hazardous?
From a Search and Rescue perspective none of the reasons for climbing a mountain makes a damn bit of difference when you’re rolling someone into a body bag and flying them off a mountain in a cargo net
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SARDay 2: Dealing with Death
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 …
Knowing how to use it
Flying over Whistler Village in 2008
Musings about knowledge and the things you canèt put in your pack.
On Life Jackets
Hundreds of people die of drowning every year because they are not wearing life jackets.
Foot Identified
The BC Coroner’s service has identified the foot found in Sasamat lake as belonging to a person that Coquitlam SAR searched for 25 years ago.
More on that foot
SAR Team members believe the foot that was found at Sasamat Lake recently belonged to a missing fisherman they searched for in 1987
Foot in Boot
The ninth foot in four years has shown up in Sasamat Lake. Since the foot is in a freshwater lake, it probably didn’t drift very far.
