To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Erasing tracks
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:21:38 -0700
Jorene Downs wrote:
>In soft dirt / sand you have granny tracks to follow and anyone with even
>fundamental tracking training - hopefully everyone in SAR / MSAR - should be
>capable of following those ... and also be controlling the mount to ride to
>the side and NOT obliterate those tracks.
Right. Complaints about anyone, mounted or otherwise, destroying
tracks are fundamentally complaints about either (1) deliberate
destruction of clues, or (2) SAR responders who are not minimally
track aware.