Backcountry Ski rig for SAR
A description of my backcountry ski rig for SAR and reasons why I chose it.
Tag: SAR
A “promotion”
I’m moving up. I’m going to be a manager. Being in BC, we get more SAR tasks than the rest of Canada combined. Being in the southwest part of BC, we get 36% of all the tasks in BC. This …
Accidents in Incidents: A review of SAR-related injuries
A review of the review of SAR related incidents.
My First Search
On July 17th 1999 I participated in my first SAR Search. I’d volunteered for the team in the fall of the previous year, and had been formally accepted as a member-in-training in January, 1999. The cohort of 10 new members …
Frequency of SAR Incidents
SAR Incidents by Week and Type (2003 to 2010)
I analysed some numbers on SAR Incidents in British Columbia and made a few graphs showing how the frequency of incidents changes with the season.
Non-Avalanche Related Snow Immersion Death
I was reading a local hiking/mountaineering forum recently when I came across this post detailing a very scary incident that happened to a skier at a local resort. And then I learned a new acronym: NARSID. Now I have never …
SAR Numbers from other Provinces
Flying over Whistler Village in 2008
Comparing SAR incident volumes in BC to those in other provinces. BC has more than the rest of Canada combined