Good tips all! I used to include a photo of my shoe tread in with some other stuff I’d leave with my dad before I’d go out. And I always carried my knife and a fire starter in my pockets in case of getting separated from my pack. Good video!

I carry an ePIRB (ACRlink). One time buy and forget item (at least for 5 years) and have piece of mind no matter where I go, including in the ocean. Worth the price. This is a great video for everyone to watch because even equipment like ePIRBS can break or get lost.

LOVE where you are! I changed jobs, to get my wife and I up there, within the next 3 years. (Only 2 counties away, right now.) Good message! Especially for people who think they can just bug out, to the NGA mountains, and will be safe. The mountains, the climate, the roads...its all different. Thanks for the reminder.

That was one of the more important videos that I have heard you present. I was not going to watch as I have some experience. However, I received a few really valuable tips on new ways to accomplish some things. Thank you.

"STOP" Sit think observe plan

Charlie thanks again for giving us such good information to us who are not trained in search and rescue

I am a huge hiker, and can sometimes get blinded by only the enjoyable parts of nature. But I learned to acknowledge the other parts. You see, once upon a time, I went on a short camping trip to the sand dunes because I was itching so bad to camp somewhere. Sand dunes sounded cool, and easy, and I felt a strong need to be out of the concrete jungle for a bit. So I spontaneously put together a loose plan, accumulated only the gear I had immediately available, did a small bit of research, and went off. I have never camped on sand dunes before. I had a pretty okay tent that I got from target but oh lord, those cheap, short and smooth tent spikes they got, do NOT work with sand and high wind speeds. So, because I didn’t do my research or plan things out thoroughly, I couldn’t camp on the sand dunes because the wind was so fucking strong that only my body weight and gear inside the tent was keeping it down! I hoped that I would be able to wait it out and that the wind would die down overnight. But I was very wrong, and I was trying very hard not to panic. At least I knew that panicking would be the worst thing to do. The wind got stronger by the hour and I knew I could not camp there... all of the tent spikes were ripped up from the force of the wind alone. And during the last hour I was in the tent before I left, I’m pretty sure I felt my body get lifted up a bit... not a lot but it was enough of a reason for me to get out. So, I ended up having to walk through the sand dune wilderness at 1am, alone, while carrying my still erected tent (the wind was too strong for me to even pack the tent up) for about two hours. And I lost a really nice flashlight 😑. I did somehow find one of my water bottles that must have dropped along the way up the sand dunes, so that was cool. Anyway, I was also using the erected tent to block my body from the sand that was being blown by the wind so fiercely that every particle of sand hitting me literally felt like being pricked by a bunch of needles. Literally. And the wind was blowing me around a bunch because the open tent quickly became a parasail in that wind! But I have to admit, walking alone through the sand dunes with the moon illuminating everything with a light blue hue, was worth all of it. It was a magical experience even with all of the inconveniences. I was SO lucky that the spot I chose to to set up camp was only a two hour downhill hike away from my car. I had the best sleep when I finally made it to the car 🤣🤡. So please, unlike me in that moment, be humble. Plan thoroughly. Research thoroughly. And most importantly, don’t expect smooth and short tent stakes to hold anything down in loose sand where there can be even a bit of wind!

Love your channel ! Always dropping knowledge 🙏🏻

Good to hear "both sides of the coin" ! Thank you!

Thanks Charlie..great information

Thank you for what you do! Weve only been doing SAR for a short while comparatively and Im continually amazed at the expertise people like yourself have accumulated over the years. :) Thank you for sharing.

Thank you sir for all your doing and for this video ❤

Really good info. Thank you

Some good ideas.

Great country out there! 😁

Carry a powerful flashlight, and/or laser pointer. S.O.S. at night, pointing upward.

Pa region 13 host team, very good information!!

TRY OUT....mapsme.... its an app that is a offline gps, after you download it and get your state map you will no longer need any service on your device. even an old phone without any service works. its 100 percent offline and so far has worked in some very remote woods.

@TrolleyDodger.

4 жыл бұрын

Ricky Mousseau... Thanks!

As a train....rider..wink wink LoL 🤭 never leave your gear...no matter what. So is voodoo a search and rescue dog? Thank you for all your services. This channel is extremely education. I take something new from every single video that you guys put out. Thank you very much.

@BaptistJoshua

2 ай бұрын

Charles Bronson was shot in the left chest while train...riding. He fell off and it later popped out of his skin.

Great limited information video , Charlie do think on your next you can gave a lesson on map reading.

That's alot but the two big ones I won't forget are taking pictures of my gear and the ribbon tape. Polaroids would be good for that, I usually keep my phone with me, would SAR check Facebook or such to see if pictures are posted there?

Good data. Just got CERT qualified, but for time being it is distancing. LOL

Thank you for th great info. Solo hiker here, I do tell a few people my locations and routes but didn't think to snap a pic ofmy gear and myself to send to them. How do you volunteer for search and rescue?

As good as this is; every time I got to a ad, it would go back to the start.

We might be volunteering to help find the missing girl in rowan county ky. Im excited to help and scared at the same time but have a HUGE passion to help. Hoping to get some tips

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I have contacted my local Sherrif's office 2 to 3 times, asking how to join any SAR team, or simply to be called when volunteers are needed, yet no one has responded to me. Does anyone have any advice?

As a CERT team manager and in Emergency Management is there a way to get the Emergency Manager for my city to realize the benefits of CERT. We had an active CERT team manager and group, but then a new Emergency Manager came in and the CERT manager was gone and the new Emergency Manager basically told the CERT members....thanks, but no thanks. He said the local police and fire got it covered.

@charleyhogwood1036

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you have leadership that has no interest or understanding of how to apply volunteers. Without political will or buy-in from TPTB a team would just wither on the vine and the volunteers would be miserable. Our county realized the high quality of the volunteer talent pool here and has given us the opportunity to reinforce our first line responders. There will always be "career" FD/PD/EM types who look down on volunteers but what they fail to realize is that by adding a strong volunteer program they would also increase their department rating which unlocks a lot of financial and insurance benefits as well as increase community message and preparedness making their jobs easier. But hey, if they like scrubbing muddy firehoses or traipsing around in the woods looking for lost people when they could be doing other things, that's their shortsightedness

If you get lost while going to the bathroom a few feet from camp, you have no business being in the woods alone.

If you can’t find your way from your camp to go the bathroom and back, you shouldn’t be in the woods, it’s not hard at all, been doing it since before I was a teen. Really not hard. And grew up hunting/backpacking in the cascades, during winter, in Oregon. That is and can be a very nasty place, to live in, look it up if you don’t think so. It’s too easy, learn basics directions, where you are, vs where you need to be. Without maps and compass, or gps. Those are only tools, no replacement for knowledge/experience. But yeah, learn basic topo stuff, it is very useful if you have the skills.

@BaptistJoshua

2 ай бұрын

I agree. Boggles my mind how people get lost in an outhouse.

@Plastikdoom

2 ай бұрын

@@BaptistJoshua yeah, for a little more info, USMC vet here, aced the land nav, by looking at terrain, guessing elevation, using a compass and deriving the rest at a gist, from a topographical map, not hard, if you think….i never once plotted points, except when I had to, by rules, lol. As I can look at a topographical map and where I am, and figure it out, pretty quick, haha. Then a compass for direction. Cheat mode.

@BaptistJoshua

2 ай бұрын

@@Plastikdoom If people would study a little, or older people hand down knowledge, then they could know how to find direction by looking at moss, stars, etc.

@BaptistJoshua

2 ай бұрын

@@Plastikdoom I am trying to join/form a Search & Rescue team in my region. I grew up playing in the woods and know my way through the forests. So far no returned calls from my local Sheriff's office.

Before watching, the ultimate lesson for SAR, don’t need it, not hard in 99.99% of life, that tiny other amount, just happens, is completely out of your control

Exposure is always and has been the biggest killer of people, then dehydration/starvation. Then injuries/accidents and wildlife. We’ve survived for millions of years, literally, don’t be that guy, it’s not hard, for the basics, we literally survived for far longer with out metal, let alone metallurgy and technology. By the way, finished your growing up in the country and hills, with no gay comment or power. Just the basics, was always fine, along with all I knew. It’s really not hard, at all. Hunting, hiking camping, shooting. Don’t be dumb, and you’re fine. Life is hard, it’s harder if you’re stupid.

See, if oh you need to look for signs and manage people, then either you’re a poor manager, and trying to micro manage or you suck, or your people suck and can’t be trusted to perform their duties. They should be able to do that with no, to almost no management, if not, then who ever sets it up, has failed in their mission, period, the hard truth.