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By Mark Rackay of the Montrose County Sheriff’s Posse (originally published in the Montrose Daily Press as a “Tips from the Posse” column)
Life was much simpler before we had cell phones. I go back to the days when the phone hung on the wall, and you had to stand to talk on it. Your limitation was the length of the cord. Ours was a party line, so you had yo...
Cover photo courtesy of Mesa County Search and Rescue
The days of UAV technology being used only to search for missing people in the backcountry have long been surpassed. Backcountry search and rescue (BSAR) organizations in Colorado are reporting a wide range of uses these days, with an even wider range of future possibilities.
Recently, a group...
Cover photo courtesy of Routt County Search and Rescue
In 2008, Summit County Rescue Group was paged on a cold, snowy January evening to find three missing snowmobilers. The three men were experienced and skilled snowmobilers, well known in the Grand County community they were from. They had been missing since the previous evening, and local snowmobilers fr...
CSAR’s volunteer state coordinators come from the backcountry SAR teams across the state that make up the Colorado Search and Rescue Association’s membership. Most have extensive experience running incidents for their own local teams, but they still train for almost a year to become state coordinators. State coordinators must have a much larger quiver of tools and contacts to...