Avalanche! Hasty Search

Avalanche! Hasty Search
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.

Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain

Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
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.

Snow Search Dogs

Snow Search Dogs
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.

Heroic Efforts

Heroic Efforts
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.

Radar the Rescue Dog

Radar the Rescue Dog
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.

Ready!

Ready!
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.

Mountain Responder

Mountain Responder
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.

Maxx Trax

Maxx Trax
Author: James Preller
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1986-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590404174

The superpowered trucks known as Maxx Trax must avert the possibility of an avalanche that would destroy Maxx Trax facilities.