Foot or body entrapment rescue can be one of the more challenging and time sensitive problems we as swiftwater responders have to deal with. In such cases, the initial size up  is imperative, and should determine 3 things: 1) scene safety 2) Victim heads up or heads down 3) available resources. There are many more parameters...

  I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. As I've said before, the opportunity we have at Sierra Rescue to work in Yosemite National Park is amazing, and it is one of my favorite places to teach. This post gives a shout out to our SRT-1 / SRT-A students from this past spring. We set...

Most of the Sierra Rescue crew headed up the coast to Fortuna, CA last week to teach and train 65 of the newly signed on members of the Watershed Stewards Project. Julie and Abi headed up the Wilderness First Aid training while Zach worked the stream rescue component. Energy was high and we had a...

My last course for the fall was a great one. 7 students were in Coloma for some swiftwater action. We saw good water and awesome weather. UK native, Icelandic River Guide Mark Hirst joined us for the course and had some great additions and perspective for the river guides in the course. Plus, we found...

Well it would seem that the guides from Barker Ewing took the last of the warm spring-like weather and left us in the grips of winter for the swiftwater training with Sands. Day 1 was frigid. Snow and mid 30's. We were fortunate enough to use Granite creek as our training site, and it just...