Mounted search and rescue

["Joan Pottinger" <j.pottinger@insightbb.com>]

This is great stuff!!  Keep it coming!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <una.smith@att.net>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Training


> Joan Pottinger wrote:
> > I thought it would be a great idea to search here.
>
> You're showing great promise, Joan.  :-)
>
> Do you know you can search the web archive of MSAR-Riders using any web
> search engine?  For Google just include in your search terms MSAR and
> site:lists.ibiblio.org .
>
>
> > I think some of them are under the impression search and rescue is
> > when if someone is missing, you get on your horse and start looking.
>
> That is exactly the idea held by many new SAR volunteers.
>
>
> > What type of conditions will you not ride in?
>
> When it is dangerous.  I have put the horse back in the trailer when
> faced with really bad ice balls.
>
>
> > How far do you go for a rescue?
>
> I have trailered to destinations over 200 miles away for some searches, 
> and
> farther for many trainings.  Our normal response area is 100 miles or so;
> that covers enough missions to keep us busy.
>
>
>
> > Do you search rural, urban, city?
>
> Wilderness and rural.
>
>
> > If a person is lost in the city would you join in the search?
>
> Yes.  However it is unlikely that we would be called.  Cities have 
> municipal
> police and most of them seem to think New Mexico state SAR resources are 
> for
> use only in wilderness.  Also, searches in populated places more often 
> than
> not involve crimes, and police are better prepared than most SAR 
> volunteers
> for those missions.  Etc.  SAR gets called more often for suburban and 
> urban
> searches when the subject is a small child.
>
>   Una Smith
>   New Mexico
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