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Taking Care of Business
Chaffee County Search and Rescue South

" You start out with an empty bag of skills and a full bag of luck. The trick is to fill up the bag of skills before you empty the bag of luck" Anonymous
Training Resources
This document was created by Bill Sample for a local presentation. It gives a great overview of SAR- South.
This link has a number of search resources for lost/missing persons
This tutorial describes usage skills of VHF and 800 DTR radios carried by teams
We have 5 inReach GPS that teams bring into the field to be tracked by IC. This tutorial shows how to use the GPS
This is a thorough presentation by Bill Sample.
Practice Figure 8, Figure 8 Follow Through, Double Fisherman, Clove Hitch, Prusik, Girth hitch, Water knot
This You Tube link is < 4 minutes long and gives you an up-close quick review of our titanium big wheel components. Great refresher too.
Part 2 of this document describes the Lift Ticket Program for FFL and is a good review of their training
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