Mounted search and rescue

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

Emily,

 

In additional to our issued blaze orange reflective SAR vests, many of our MSAR team members place glow sticks, glow-rings or small blinker lights on there horses at night.  Another item that some team members use is bear bells. When the horse are secure for the night the bells works great because you can hear them when something has the horse upset and you don’t hear them when all is well...  

 

You can purchase (party supply) glow lights at Oriental Trader Company http://www.orientaltrading.com

You can find reflective material at:  http://www.reflective-fabric.com or at  http://www.3m.com/product/information/Scotchlite-Reflective-Material-Fabric.html

You can see out team vest on our members’ page at www.trotsar.org

 

Ride safe,

T’mi

TROTSAR Mounted Team

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From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of emboote@aol.com
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:14 PM
To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Virginia State approved MSAR standards

 

Hello MSAR Riders, 

 

Can anyone give me some advice regarding what you'd recommend to put on a horse to make it more visible in the woods during a SAR deployment? I will be attending a MSAR weekend in upper Minnesota in October and would like to have a reflective horse blanket or sheet that I can put on my horse both for visual protection and just as an additional precaution in case he gets loose. I've had to help people look for horses in unfamiliar areas before, and it would have been a lot easier to see them if they had a bright blanket on. This would be to put on him when he is in a temporary pen that I'll set up.  I can't seem to find anything in either glow or reflective mat erial on the Internet.

 

Thanks in advance, 

 

Emily Boote

Search Rescue and Recovery Resources of Minnesota