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- From: "IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
- To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] Overnight activities--keep working
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:17:45 -0500
The biggest problem with working at night
is rider confidence. Many riders stop at dark when pleasure riding or even when
on an endurance ride. We are striving to work until the radio batteries
die. Working at night means being able to night adapt your vision (the horse’s
is usually fine) and work without supplementary lighting on the trail. One of
our members actually leads moonlight tours of a local park every full moon
night. There is a difference between working at
night and camping overnight. The local fire and public works people can
supply all the lights you could ask for, and now there are battery powered light
towers that will last overnight so the generator engines don’t keep you
up, but we try to be out in the field if possible. You must get a look at
the terrain and the get a feel for the locals’ reaction to you moving
around at night. If your personnel have the confidence in themselves and
their mounts they should ride all night, hopefully the subject will be tired
and stop moving part of the shift and you might catch up with him. Irv Lichtenstein From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Paul |
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[MSAR] Overnight activities,
Paul, 07/01/2007
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Re: [MSAR] Overnight activities--keep working,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 07/01/2007
- Re: [MSAR] Overnight, bchorserider, 07/01/2007
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Re: [MSAR] Overnight activities--keep working,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 07/01/2007
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