Mounted search and rescue

["T'mi Fi" <tfinkle@erols.com>]

Lisa - I will send it first thing Tuesday morning when I get to my other 
computer.  I hope your enjoy the course!

You will discover that the clues are easy to place and it only take 
about an hour for each rider to run the course (we space riders and 
start them on 10 minute intervals).  It is also a fun way to teach your 
MSAR Responders the proper basics of a (mounted) hasty search.  I will 
also include a picture of the clue (water bottle) we use.  We use 
(hiking type) water bottles since it is a relatively common clue that 
lost persons have often times discarded on past search missions.  

PS: Una, back in the early years, our team used 1-gallon and then 
downsized to quart size milk jugs, but we found that not to many (if 
any) lost subjects have left milk jugs behind (as a clue), so that is 
another item that we did away with ;)     

T'mi

horsedriver54@woh.rr.com wrote:

> Good Afternoon,  This sounds alot like our mock search and rescue.  We give 
> the team a scenerio of a person or group of people that have come up missing. 
>  But this idea sounds very good and a way to keep your team sharp and working 
> as a team   could you send me the details.  we are Clark County Mounted 
> Search and Rescue of Springfield Ohio  thanks so much and enjoy reading all 
> the articles.  lisa sites
> ---- T'mi Fi <tfinkle@erols.com> wrote: 
>  
>
> > Chris- The first item that comes to mind is perhaps conducting a 10 clue 
> > POD course, used to established an MSAR responders POD percentage.  I 
> > have a clue placement template that we use and can forward it to you, if 
> > you would like. This course is some what of a spin off of the NASAR SAR 
> > Tech-II (Ground) POD playing card test.
> >