Avalanche Search and Rescue
Author | : Alexis Alloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781734176148 |
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Author | : Alexis Alloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734176148 |
Author | : Patti Burnett |
Publisher | : Doral Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Avalanches |
ISBN | : 9780944875957 |
Describes avalanche dog training, clearly and comprehensively, and shows the value of a deep handler canine relationship.
Author | : Bruce Tremper |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780898868340 |
Winter recreation in the mountains has increased steadily over the past few years, and so has the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches. Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain covers everything you need to know to avoid trouble in avalanche terrain: what avalanches are and how they work, common myths, human activities that lead to avalanche trouble, what happens to victims when an avalanche occurs, and rescue techniques. Provides step- by-step instruction for determining avalanche hazards, using safe travel technique, and making effective rescues.
Author | : Betsy R. Armstrong |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Group |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Nature |
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Author | : Maida Silverman |
Publisher | : Bearport Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781597160179 |
Describes the history, selection, training, and accomplishments of different dogs used in snow search and rescue operations.
Author | : Jennifer Lois |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0814751830 |
Heroic Efforts is an ethnography of a volunteer mountain search and rescue group, which the author joined and actively participated in for six years. It examines the motivations behind the volunteers' altruistic behaviour.
Author | : Janet Love Morrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781460225752 |
Radar the Rescue Dog is a fictitious children's story based on a real dog. Three adventurous young skiers venture beyond the ski area boundary and find themselves lost on Whistler Mountain. Radar is their hero. It's a simple plot to teach young skiers and snowboarders mountain safety awareness.
Author | : Susan Bulanda |
Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 1593789963 |
Professional search and rescue workers consider Susan Bulanda's Ready! Training the Search and Rescue Dog "the bible of Search and Rescue (SAR)," the most sought-after book of its kind detailing canine search and rescue. This second edition, expanded and revised with new color photography, provides readers with the necessary training methods for dogs in various SAR disciplines, including wilderness, evidence, cadaver, water, avalanche, and disaster searches. The author, an experienced SAR professional, details the goals, target skills, and potential problems at each training level of every SAR discipline.Ready! provides descriptions of every type of search, including specific training methods to accomplish each SAR discipline. Professional and volunteer SAR workers will profit from the Bulandas' expertise on training the dog to alert, managing the search mission, choosing and socializing a SAR dog, and how to train dogs for specific commands (such as bar, turn around, go to an object, check, slow, crawl through and others). Readers curious about the fascinating work of the SAR canine will enjoy the general chapters about the history of SAR, an explanation of how dogs use scent to locate people or objects, and the functions of the SAR dog.This highly specialized training manual offers precise direction for SAR workers for every possible kind of mission, identifying the goals, target skills, methods and problem solving for each type of search. Color photographs and line drawings help to elucidate difficult concepts explained in the text. A resources section and index conclude this 254-page volume.
Author | : Steve Achelis |
Publisher | : Dog Ear Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
ISBN | : 1608441075 |
As commander of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team, Steve Achelis participated in hundreds of mountain rescues that frequently made the evening news. In Mountain Responder Steve takes the reader along on these life-and-death rescues as he and his teammates dig people out of avalanches, hang on a thin cable below a helicopter, and rescue climbers stuck on rock walls. Threaded throughout these unforgettable rescues, Steve shares the exhilaration of saving a life, the fears and uncertainties during the struggle to keep a patient alive, as well as the doubts and second-guessing when someone doesn't make it.