Pretend for a moment that you’re a “fake psychic.” Not a real psychic, who can find lost persons after receiving visions from deities, angels, or bad cases of indigestion, but a “fake psychic” – you’re just making stuff up. To advertise your special powers, you’re...
Many of our national parks in the U.S. contain large wilderness areas. Fifty of our national parks have designated wilderness areas, totaling over 40 million acres. Many of these wilderness areas are visited by many people every year. And every year, due to...
It’s a K9 team’s worst nightmare. The mission is over; the subject not found. Then, a day, a month, or a year later, you hear that remains were found in the area you were assigned to. Oh my God. What did we do wrong? Probably nothing. Many of us in SAR are familiar...
On a cold morning in February 1980, a father and son are working their way along Fly Creek, about 20 miles north of the Oregon border. Seeking promising-looking gravel, they stop here and there, digging small holes along the riverbank. The son kneels; the shovel bites...
Edwin Birch and his son are lost and SAR is called into action In July 2014 Suzanne, Keb and I were deployed on Mt Rainier to search for 64-year-old Edwin Birch and his son who had set out on a “key exchange” hike of the 18-mile segment of the Wonderland Trail between...
