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  • From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] MSAR Rider 10 Essentials List
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 19:47:14 -0600

T'mi, it depends where you are. In checkerboard wheat and cornfields
regions of the midwest almost nowhere is more than half a mile from a
good road. In ranch country if a spontaneous volunteer is a rancher
then he is good to go, no questions asked. This is someone who spends
hundreds if not thousands of hours per year, every year, on horseback
and on foot in exactly the kind of terrain where we are searching.

These people have what they need on their person. Item number 1 is a
knife. Item number 2 usually is a firearm. Actually, the main thing
they have is themselves: their experience, skill, wisdom. Especially
the older folks.

I am aware of several "10 essentials" traditions, developed in several
different contexts. Usually it is a survival concept for long distance
wilderness travel, not for routine SAR. See for example the Wikipedia
page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials

Una




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