The Golden Beaver award to Doug Squire who is retiring soon. Miss you already. --- * Training teaches the rules. Experience teaches the exceptions. * Silt Happens would be much more interesting if everyone contributed something each year.

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04- 53 9- 4- 04 Biker Down Porcupine Rim Trail Reported as a concussion cuz the biker went over his handlebars. Paged twice. "812 drove personal vehicle. 813 drove the 6 wheeler. 502 responded. The individual was in a jeep getting a ride out when spotted by 13 B 62. Mostly facial lacerations. Responders: TBerry, Sam, Shawn, John, 13 B 62 Ward

04- 54 9- 10 -04 Overdue Biker Gemini Trail Usually when bikers are overdue from the Gemini Trail we find them on one of the roads south of the main road. The subject had a cell phone and was talking to the rest of his group and Steve Brownell. Said he was on a trail marked with two lizards and was near the word "Overlook" painted on the rock. None of that sounded familiar to us so we called Doug McElhaney of the Red Rock Four Wheelers jeeping club. He got back to us and said the markings were on Metal Masher Trail which is north of the main road. The overlook was located at the first place that trail comes near the rim of Little Canyon. We assembled at the parking lot on Hwy 191 and proceeded upwards. When we were passing thru Little Canyon, the subject called his friends, who relayed to dispatch, who relayed to us the he could see 5 vehicles going by. That was us for sure. The rest was simply getting the wheelers to his location and bringing him out. We had good radio com and coordinate exchange. Responders: Bego, Lee, Jim, Dan, Nancy, Sam, John, Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rigging for Rescue's Philosophy The Science and Art of Practical Rigging Rigging is an art, which must be learned. No art can be taught by rote. Only the concentration, appreciation, and true understanding found in a serious course of study can lead to becoming a truly artful rigger. Polishing the art of rigging to a high level is the only way to ensure that an experienced rescue team has the skills, knowledge and flexibility to adjust to the immense diversity of real rescue situations. Ropes, pulleys and friction devices are the heart of rope rescue. Rigging for Rescue's advances come not from technocratic gadgetry but by finding and reapplying knowledge that has been lost to us since the days of shipping by sail, farming by horsepower and engineering on a human scale that have passed us by. The content may seem revolutionary, but it is primarily the renewal of the knowledge that previous generations found essential for life and their livelihoods. Rigging for Rescue offers a technical ropework seminar that is renowned for its focus on applying the critical thinking and systems analysis skills required to competently incorporate ropework and rigging into effective rescue systems. The emphasis is on encouraging participants to become knowledgeable in the principles and concepts of rigging techniques rather than just having them learn by rote. "Knowledge provides understanding, skill provides ability, practice provides proficiency, and from these, together with experience, comes judgment." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The best way to get people to think out of the box is to not create the box in the first place. 04- 55 9- 14- 04 Dark Matter Moab Rim These foreigners called to say that their friends were up on Moab Rim hiking and their flashlight batteries wouldn’t last til they got down. We got to the parking lot to find everyone OK. Responders: Rex, Sam, Nancy, Bego, Dave, Barbara, John, Dan, Lee, Brian, Jim, Jon, Paula Mike, Herman, James

Adventure Scouts A program by Archie Walker. Get the high school "Adventure Scouts" to become really proficient at descending ropes, especially as applied to canyoneering. The first training was at Mr. Corky’s Fire Tower. Two rappelling stations and one climbing station of belayer and climber. Everyone did everything. All summited the climbing wall. Couple of Aussie rappels. Professional Scouter Brian Davis and Bego helped Archie along. Attending were a bunch of Scout leaders and bishops, all good to see. Brian Redd, Brian Walston and Chris Knowles tied into the ropes too. Harness, locking biner, Rescue 8 and helmet supplied by BSA. Thank YOU. I would like to evolve beyond the Rescue 8 and get everyone trained in the Gri-gri or one of the tubular type belay/rap devices. One can vary the friction rate and tie off more easily with these tools than with the Rescue 8. 04- 56 9- 23- 04 Biker Down Porcupine Rim This guy biffed and broke his leg in exactly the same spot as a gal biker did last year. CareFlight got there first but had to land a ways away cuz of the trees. We got there in time to transport the subject a half mile to the helicopter. Responders: Nancy, Bego, Sam, Lee, TBerry, Jeff

Scout Tracking Operations Course- SAR Basic - Phase 1 "There is always a trail" Ty Cunningham, Tony Rose, Carl von Rein - from the US Marshals Service in Wyoming < www.ispt.org > International Society of Professional Trackers Totally awesome instructors and class. We got certified. More on this class further on. They’ll be back next spring for a Law Enforcement course and Phase 2 for us. 04- 57 9- 25- 04 Camper Falls near Big Bend This female camper fell down a very steep silt bank and broke her leg. She was lodged in a trough of steep silt pointed down toward the river bank. We had to dig a ledge in the silt to get the backboard level and then dig another ledge for the litter. All this surrounded by poison oak. Topside we rigged a 3 to 1 mechanical advantage and a belay from the front towing eyes of Dan’s truck to raise her up the silt bank. Responders: TBerry, Sam, Dave, Bego John, Jim, Dan (everyone else was at night tracking class) James 13B62, Jeff 2A89, Mark C524, Jason A224 EMTs: Michelle, Teri, Camille Funny that Steve White would note the problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Touching The Void- The award winning movie of sacrifice and self rescue from a BIG mountain in Peru. While descending the mountain one guy falls and breaks his knee. The other guy starts lowering him down, rope length by rope length. After some of this, the bottom guy falls over an ice cliff. To save his own self the top guy cuts the rope so the bottom guy falls a long ways and into a crevasse to boot. Top guy makes it back to camp next day. Guy in crevasse with broken knee makes it back to camp too. Really? How? When? Why? in the movie. GCHS Red Devils Homecoming Parade - GCSAR as part of MPD traffic control net. GCSAR provided personal chauffeur service for Tom Brown, High School Principal. MFD and NPS had entries in the parade. SEUG Advanced Rock Rescue- starring Mark Pita Lower and raise evolutions with the litter in the vertical position. Lots of new stuff there. Patient packaging: The not-Yosemite but Canyonlands/Webb patient tie-in. A day at the guiding line option. Big forces sometimes on the guiding line as it approaches being a highline. High strength tie-off should be used in certain places. Know the forces. Mark Pita RISKY Jeff Webb RISKY * Andrew Fitzgerald RISKY Alyssa Van Schmus RISKY Steve Young RISKY Murray Shoemaker ARCH Sara Bartels ARCH Mike Nattrass NABR Phil Akers DINO Michelle Busbee NEED Bego Gerhart GCSAR Jim Gostlin GCSAR Jeff Arbon UT ST PARKS

04- 58 10- 12- 04 ATV Accident Kane Creek Road A lady from Germany swerved off the dirt road. She bailed off the machine early but bounced down slope a few feet. The ATV went to the bottom. With the help of some bikers, we pulled the litter up to the road, no problem. Responders: Rex, Nancy, Sam, Bego, John. First rigger on the scene was Corky Brewer. xx- xx 10- 12- 04 Search for a 6 yr old The Fire Dept was called to search for a 6 yr old who got off the bus but didn’t make it home in Grand Oasis. Several GCSAR people joined in. The child was located as he was being driven home from the babysitter. He was told to go there. Responders: Bego, Sam, Frank 24 Hours of Moab Bike Race = 24 Hours of EMS GCSAR contributed a Polaris Ranger to the EMS effort. They had a steady stream of this and that, a couple of broken bones, road rash, and stuff. The interesting one was a snake bite. This gal liked snakes so she picked up a Rattlesnake, not knowing it was. Oops.

Adventure Scouts: A classroom session on equipment choices and the acronym SLACK (Strength of materials, Lines of force, Anchors, Commands, Knots). And then we tied a bunch o knots. Main perp of this scouting effort is Archie Walker. 04- 59 10- 23- 04 Biker Down Porcupine Rim Over the handlebars she went, way out by the beginning of the singletrack. Her companion was an EMT with cell phone so we got a good report of her head and neck injuries. Air Med from Salt Lake was paged. Frank started hiking up the single track. The 4WD ambulance and the GCSAR Polaris Ranger started driving in the long, very bumpy road. Frank arrived in time to find an LZ. We arrived in time to package the subject. Air Med arrived just then. Responders: Nancy, Sam, Bego, Frank, Lee 04- 60 10- 30- 04 Biker Down Amasa Back Over the handlebars she went, just a hundred yards down the trail. EMS fixed her up and we carried her up to the ambulance. Responders: Frank, Sam, Nancy, Dave, TBerry, Bego, Barbara, Lee, Jon, Paula, Shawn, Matt 2 A89 Jeff Arbon, 13B61 Jon Sering, 2A47 Richard Droesbeke

Grand Canyon National Park (AZ) Short Haul Rescue of Falling Victim Just after 1 p.m. on October 4th, park dispatch received a cell phone call reporting that a man had fallen into the canyon near Mather Point. Responding personnel pinpointed the location on the west side of the point directly below Rim Trail. Karl Schaaf, 88, Torrance, California, survived the 150-foot fall, which occurred while he was scrambling off-trail on exposed terrain. Ranger Greg Moore reached Schaaf via a technical rope lowering and immediately secured him. While Schaaf's injuries were being treated, the park helicopter was prepared for a short haul rescue. Paramedics Nate Becker and Marc Yeston were lifted from the road near Mather Point and flown to the accident site. Pilot Greg Haufle and short haul spotter Mike Minton then delivered additional EMS equipment to the paramedics. Once Schaaf was packaged on a rigid backboard and placed in a Bauman bag stretcher, he was lifted out and flown directly to the South Rim helibase with Becker as his attendant. Schaaf was then transferred to a Classic Air Ambulance, flown to Flagstaff Medical Center, and admitted to the center’s critical care unit. [Submitted by Ken Phillips, Incident Commander]

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Without enuff sleep, we all become tall two year olds.

SPRAT: The Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians
was founded to provide a specific and useful resource for information, networking, and support for
companies and workers who use on-the-job rope access techniques. The society is built from a strong
framework of rope-access systems users. SPRAT is committed to developing safe, practical industry standards.
Members enjoy the security that comes from using an industry-consensus standard for rope-access techniques
as the baseline from which to form an authorized body of written work.
Further documents on training and equipment are in process, and all members of SPRAT are able to
participate in the development of these standards. SPRAT has established a working dialogue with OSHA in
order to integrate rope access standards into the regulatory system.

WHAT IS ROPE ACCESS?
Rope access is the application of specialized rope techniques to place workers in hard-to-reach locations
in the vertical environment. Rope access techniques are often used by high-rise window cleaners, steeplejacks,
bridge and building inspectors, tower repairmen, arborists, and construction specialists.

Rope access techniques provide:
* Flexibility -Custom solutions to work access problems!

* Efficiency -Place the worker where he needs to be to do the job!

* Safety -Proven techniques and equipment backed by industry standards!

* Skill -Identify and use trained professionals for the job!

* Compliance -Create work plans to meet your safety needs.

For more information, a brochure or a membership application, contact SPRAT info@sprat.org

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Ropeworks [ www.ropesafety.com ] has been a leader of rope access training in North America since 1994.
Our goal is to produce efficient and self-reliant teams of skilled technicians. Ropeworks training programs
focus on rigging, access, self-rescue, and team-rescue using the highest safety standards of the industry.
The safety and efficiency of industrial rope access operations depend on an organization's commitment to
successfully implement three key components: 1) Good Training, 2)Appropriate Equipment, and 3) Experienced
Supervision
---Rope Access Refresher: This two-day course is designed to refresh and raise the skills of trained
rope access personnel.
---Rope Access Level I: Worker: This 32-40 hour curriculum gives personnel thorough exposure to industrial
rope access techniques and basic rescue principles. Successful candidates will be qualified to work under
appropriate supervision in a variety of rope access environments. Custom courses can be adapted for specific
applications including dams, buildings, bridges, cliffs, and pipelines, for example. A written and practical
field evaluation will happen.
---Rope Access Level II: Technician: Level II focuses on more advanced rigging and rescue skills required
of a Lead Technician while preparing candidates for SPRAT or IRATA
---Level II Certification. Self- and team-rescue skills will be emphasized. The main emphasis of the course
will be building efficient rescue skills in a small team.
---Rope Access Level III: Rope Access Supervisor Designed for those candidates that may be responsible for
the supervision, safety, and/or training of rope access personnel, this course will build upon advanced
rigging and rescue principles gained in Level II. Emphasis will be placed on solving complicated job site
challenges and the most difficult rescue scenarios.
---Advanced Rope Access and Rescue: This 32-hour course is designed to sharpen the rescue and access skills
of personnel employing rope access methods in industrial work. The scope of this course is not constrained
by the demands of independent certification.

National Incident Management System ( NIMS ) U.S. Dept of Homeland Security

U. S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today announced approval of the National Incident
Management System, the Nation's first standardized management approach that unifies Federal, state, and local
lines of government for incident response.
NIMS establishes standardized incident management processes, protocols, and procedures that all responders
-- Federal, state, tribal, and local -- will use to coordinate and conduct response actions. With responders
using the same standardized procedures, they will all share a common focus, and will be able to place full
emphasis on incident management when a homeland security incident occurs -- whether terrorism or natural
disaster. In addition, national preparedness and readiness in responding to and recovering from an incident
is enhanced since all of the Nation's emergency teams and authorities are using a common language and set
of procedures.
NIMS incorporates incident management best practices developed and proven by thousands of responders and
authorities across America. These practices, coupled with consistency and national standardization, will now
be carried forward throughout all incident management processes: exercises, qualification and certification,
communications interoperability, doctrinal changes, training, and publications, public affairs, equipping,
evaluating, and incident management.

Key features of NIMS:
* Incident Command System (ICS). NIMS establishes ICS as a standard incident management organization
with five functional areas -- command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration -- for
management of all major incidents. To ensure further coordination, and during incidents involving multiple
jurisdictions or agencies, the principle of unified command has been universally incorporated into NIMS.
This unified command not only coordinates the efforts of many jurisdictions, but provides for and assures
joint decisions on objectives, strategies, plans, priorities, and public communications.

* Communications and Information Management. Standardized communications during an incident are
essential and NIMS prescribes interoperable communications systems for both incident and information
management. Responders and managers across all agencies and jurisdictions must have a common operating
picture for a more efficient and effective responses.

* Preparedness. Preparedness incorporates a range of measures, actions, and processes accomplished
before an incident happens. NIMS preparedness measures including planning, training, exercises, qualification
and certification, equipment acquisition and certification, and publication management. All of these serve
to ensure that pre-incident actions are standardized and consistent with mutually-agreed doctrine. NIMS
further places emphasis on mitigation activities to enhance preparedness. Mitigation includes public
education and outreach, structural modifications to lessen the loss of life or destruction of property,
code enforcement in support of zoning rules, land management, and building codes, and flood insurance and
property buy-out.

* Joint Information System (JIS). NIMS organizational measures enhance the public communication
effort. The Joint Information System provides the public with timely and accurate incident information and
unified public messages. This system employs Joint Information Centers (JIC) and brings incident
communicators together during an incident to develop, coordinate, and deliver a unified message. This will
ensure that Federal, state, and local levels of government are releasing the same information during an
incident.

* NIMS Integration Center (NIC). To ensure that NIMS remains an accurate and effective management tool,
the NIMS NIC will be established by the Secretary of Homeland Security to assess proposed changes to NIMS,
capture, and evaluate lessons learned, and employ best practices. The NIC will provide strategic direction
and oversight of the NIMS, supporting both routine maintenance and continuous refinement of the system and
its components over the long term. The NIC will develop and facilitate national standards for NIMS education
and training, first responder communications and equipment, typing of resources, qualification and
credentialing of incident management and responder personnel, and standardization of equipment maintenance
and resources. The NIC will continue to use the collaborative process of Federal, state, tribal, local,
multi-discipline and private authorities to assess prospective changes and assure continuity.

New Wind Chill --- warmer than the old at medium winds. as of 11-1- 01

Temperature --> 40 35 30 25 20 15  10   5   0  -5 -10 -15
    	      5 36 31 25 19 13  7   1  -5 -11 -16 -22 -28
  	     10 34 27 21 15  9  3  -4 -10 -16 -22 -28 -35
   Wind      15 32 25 19 13  6  0  –7 -13 -19 -26 -32 -39
   Speed --> 20 30 24 17 11  4 -2  -9 -15 -22 -29 -35 -42
  	     25 29 23 16  9  3 -4 -11 -17 -24 -31 -37 -44
  	     30 28 22 15  8  1 -5 -12 -19 -26 -33 -39 -46
  	     35 28 21 14  7  0 -7 -14 -21 -27 -34 -41 -48

Starting around -19 degrees, exposed flesh will freeze within one minute. EEK

You will not freeze below the still air temp, you will just get there faster.

Heat Loss: Below the thermoneutral zone there lies 2 actions: reduce heat loss, increase heat gain.

Heat is lost from the body in:
3 non-evaporative ways- radiation, conduction, convection and
2 evaporative ways- perspiration, respiration

Hopping around in your non-winter world, 50- 60 % of your heat is lost by radiation. Most of the rest
thru evaporation. Most clothing available today does not effectively reduce these forms of heat loss.

However, when the big Brrr comes, convection is often the major route of heat loss, especially in the wind
and more so in a strong wind. The new chart makes strong winds warmer than the old chart. Conduction is
the winter heat loss route in cold water immersion. Convection and conduction can be reduced by modern
layered clothing.

Convection is blowing on your soup. The amount of heat lost by convection is determined by the temperature
difference between the air and the body surface... and the speed of the air. The greater the temperature
difference, the larger the heat loss. Quite low temps of still air can be tolerated, just ask the 4 American
climbers who bivvied at 28,000 feet on Mt. Everest in 1963, pre Gore and fleece.

It is the wind that kills. The amount of heat loss increases as the square of the wind velocity, not in
direct proportion. A wind of 8 mph removes 4 times as much heat- not twice as much- as a wind of 4 mph.
The trend begins to fall off as wind speed passes 25 mph but by then most folks will be indoors.

The original heat loss studies were done by Paul Siple, the Eagle Scout that Admiral Byrd took with him to
Antarctica in 1939. His was the wind chill chart de jour until last fall. The new chart corrects some of
Siple’s assumptions. New charts use wind speed measured 5 feet above the ground (human face height),
not 33 feet (standard anemometer height); be based on a human face model; incorporate modern heat transfer
theory (heat loss from the body to its surroundings, during cold and breezy/windy days); lower the calm wind
threshold to 3 mph; use a consistent standard for skin tissue resistance; assume worst case scenario for solar
radiation (clear night sky).

Wind chill does not affect your car’s antifreeze protection. It will have an impact on how quickly your
home’s exposed water pipes freeze, but has little impact on whether they would freeze.

The importance of wind chill index is as an indicator of how to properly dress for winter weather.