San Juan County Search and Rescue

MEETING AT 7PM at the Carriage House

TRAINING FOR TONIGHT 12/11/2008

I have added a lot of documents to review to our group site. For tonight and Sunday review the BeaconSearch101.pdf, the Avy fact sheet and the Avalanche review paper.

Equipment

+Wear warm clothes
+a headlamp
+a prussik knot or 2 m cord
+a personal avy beacon (if you have one)

1) Knots for Tonight: Figure eight, F8 on a bight, Water knot, Double Fishermans, Prussik, Bowline.

2)Beacon Refresher by Andy; Overview of team beacons, will hide some beacons on the county courthouse lawn.


Sunday Winter Training 12/14

9 am will be paged, meet at the Carriage House, bring your winter kit (backpack, winter clothes etc).

+Review Avalanche forecast for the day.

+Practice beacon/probe shovel and get the snowmobile out.

+Prepare for appropriate winter travel, we wont go far so snowshoes or lightweight XC skis are fine.

+Goal is to familiarize group with our winter set up and have your winter kit ready to go.