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Avalanche Transceivers and Tin Foil

By Michael Coyle Posted on 28/01/2014 Posted in Blog Entry 3 Comments Tagged with avalanche, avalanche transceiver, experiment, transceiver, video
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.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: the basics

By Michael Coyle Posted on 08/01/2014 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with SAR, technology, UAV, 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

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/12/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts No Comments Tagged with crowdsourcing, SAR, search, technology, Tyler Wright, video
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

By Michael Coyle Posted on 26/11/2012 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with accident, HETS, olympics, photo, rescue, snow, video, weather

Harvey’s Cloud, a weather phenomenon I encountered at Whistler during the 2010 Olympics

Treewell camera footage

By Michael Coyle Posted on 30/03/2011 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with accident, news, ski, snow, video

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 …

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GoPro Hero, first impressions

By Michael Coyle Posted on 06/01/2011 Posted in Blog Entry 5 Comments Tagged with gear, HETS, review, ski, snow, technology, video

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 …

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How not to carry a stretcher

By Michael Coyle Posted on 01/12/2010 Posted in Blog Entry 1 Comment Tagged with funny, video

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 …

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Climbing like a pregnant woman

By Michael Coyle Posted on 26/07/2010 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with climbing, personal, video

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; …

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