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  • From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Boy Scout in Utah Found Alive
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:45:58 -0600

There are training programs that teach children to hide from
strangers. "Stranger Danger", in the words of a 10 year old
friend. Fear is a very powerful emotion. The fact that
strangers are on horseback may increase the fear, or be
irrelevant, or be not strong enough to override the fear.
And which is scarier to a child: a group of strangers, or
one alone? That too may depend on the child's training.

Of greater concern to me is remarks attributed to a Sheriff
Dave Edmunds, that lost children normally travel downhill.
Not in my own experience, nor in my SAR management training
materials. Older children often travel uphill, to find a
lookout place where they can "see where they are".

Una Smith
New Mexico




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