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  • From: "Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Mounted SAR to include ATV?
  • Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:12:27 -0700

MSAR is actually a very good mix with ATV and off-highway motorcycles ... provided you train together and the terrain is appropriate. During an actual search you can use the motorized vehicle on point as a "sound attraction" and tracker, with their search view more specific to someone or something low or under brush, etc., since the driver is lower to the ground and has an advantage from that angle.

Point is followed a bit behind by MSAR riders calling the subject's name (look, listen, etc.), hopefully on mounts who will alert with a rider who knows how to read their mount. MSAR would ride the flank positions behind the wheeled vehicles on a wider path like a dirt road, looking for sign where the wheeled vehicle didn't drive, with a primary visual advantage from the higher angle in the saddle more for distance and over shurubs, etc.

This kind of partnering covers both the lower angle searching and the higher angle.

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Jorene Downs
Tulare Co SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
www.ceoates.com/sar
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