Avalanche Transceivers and Tin Foil
A demonstration of the attenuation of of the signal of an avalanche transceiver by an order of magnitude when wrapped in foil; how this affects you.
Tag: video
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: the basics
QuadCopter UAV
Some basic facts about the operational use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Search and Rescue in Canada, and in BC
Current Crowdsourced SAR effort on the North Shore
Flying over Whistler Village in 2008
SAR teams on the North Shore are attempting to reproduce a crowdsourced SAR effort pioneered in 2010 on a massive 16 day long search.
Harvey’s cloud
Harvey’s Cloud, a weather phenomenon I encountered at Whistler during the 2010 Olympics
Treewell camera footage
I don’t usually “reblog” things, but this is something interesting and related to the posts I’ve written about NARSID, or Treewell incidents. A man on Mount Shasta Ski Park in California had a helmet camera running when he fell into …
GoPro Hero, first impressions
I got a GoPro Hero camera for Christmas. I figure since I do some exciting things on occasion I may as well record some of them. I have a few friends who’ve bought this camera, and almost everyone has seen …
How not to carry a stretcher
Believe it or not, SAR members actually train for stretcher carrying. I honestly think that most of the reason we do this training is that we’re usually called out in the middle of the night, so you need to have …
Climbing like a pregnant woman
The other day I was climbing a well known 5.8 test piece in Squamish. I led, and Sylvia, who is 6 months pregnant, seconded it. About half way up she was heard to say “I think we’re at the inflection point; …