Season’s Greetings. I hope everyone has had an enjoyable holiday. Now it’s back to the grind of our workaday world. Your board has been working on several projects over the last few months. We are looking into the feasibility of creating regional FEMA response teams. These teams would be made up of members from various
In 2022, MRA and Montrose Search and Rescue team member Mike Leum was asked to join a mission to the Ukraine to help a group of special needs orphans who had been abandoned because of the invasion by Russia. Jack Osborne, the son of rock star Ozzy Osbourne and acquaintance of Leum, was
As volunteer rescue professionals, we provide an essential public service and mission readiness that requires a great deal of training and personal preparations. Underpinning this capability is communications. One of the most important, yet often overlooked, aspects of communications is maintaining Federal Communications Commission (FCC) compliance to use the Mountain Rescue Association licensed frequency, 155.160
Wilderness medicine is basically what we all do as part of a MRA team. In keeping with this thought, I want to bring information to you that is relevant to what we do either with technical ropes and providing medical care in colder temperatures. Jørgen Melau published in his Substack under the title “Frozen
Stowe Mountain Rescue Tries to Teach, Warn Inexperienced Adventurers The Stowe Mountain Rescue team made headlines in December with a post about social media videos that were luring inexperienced skiers and snowboarders into backcountry locations that they were not prepared for and leading to an increase in rescue calls for the team. More recently, the
Sitting here in California hoping for snow, but mostly getting rain. I know the snow will come, but patience isn’t exactly my strong suit. Recent missions for my team have definitely required patience as we have had several searches this year with no find of our missing person. Most searchers find these to be the
