by Guy Mansfield | Aug 14, 2020 | General Search and Rescue
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...
by Guy Mansfield | Jul 16, 2020 | General Search and Rescue, Outdoors
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...
by Guy Mansfield | Jun 30, 2020 | General Search and Rescue, K9 Search and Rescue
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...
by Guy Mansfield | May 2, 2020 | General Search and Rescue, K9 Search and Rescue
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...
by Guy Mansfield | Apr 13, 2020 | General Search and Rescue, K9 Search and Rescue, Outdoors
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...
