http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:10:43 +0000 MyBB http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=92 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:48:28 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=92 Princeton BC Ground Search and Rescue is hosting a T1-SC course @ Camp Tulahead May 11-13 2012.
For more details, see the 2012 UTS schedule.
It would be nice to see some of our southern neighbours attending!
Hope to see you here.
R]]> Princeton BC Ground Search and Rescue is hosting a T1-SC course @ Camp Tulahead May 11-13 2012.
For more details, see the 2012 UTS schedule.
It would be nice to see some of our southern neighbours attending!
Hope to see you here.
R]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=80 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:07:00 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=80 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=76 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:14:49 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=76 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=74 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:57:02 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=74 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=73 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:21:50 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=73 UTS InHouse Classes for details and contact person.]]> UTS InHouse Classes for details and contact person.]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=36 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:29:40 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=36 To my knowledge Pat has been with search & rescue over 20 years. If you have ever been to a tracking class at Camp Cody then you have had the pleasure of talking with Pat and hearing some of his jokes. He always has a big smile and a cheerful attitude. Get well soon Pat!

I will update this thread as I get new info.]]> To my knowledge Pat has been with search & rescue over 20 years. If you have ever been to a tracking class at Camp Cody then you have had the pleasure of talking with Pat and hearing some of his jokes. He always has a big smile and a cheerful attitude. Get well soon Pat!

I will update this thread as I get new info.]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=35 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:59:03 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=35 Rocky Mountain Trackers will be hosting a Track Aware/Tracker II class just north of Colorado Springs, CO. Last year was a great success so count this one in for this year. The lodging was the best, the food was even better. There are over 400 acres to pick terrain from.
Contact me if you want some information - David Reynolds - 719-649-0046 or dpreynolds00@comcast.net.
Check the schedule right here on the site for the full info sheet.

Thanks!!]]> Rocky Mountain Trackers will be hosting a Track Aware/Tracker II class just north of Colorado Springs, CO. Last year was a great success so count this one in for this year. The lodging was the best, the food was even better. There are over 400 acres to pick terrain from.
Contact me if you want some information - David Reynolds - 719-649-0046 or dpreynolds00@comcast.net.
Check the schedule right here on the site for the full info sheet.

Thanks!!]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=34 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:48:44 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=34
I am a MIT in training for SAR under Randy Rorvik/ Princeton, BC. I just attended my first Track Aware Course Gardom Lake Bible Camp/ April 15-17 2011. The instructors were all fabulous, informative with step-by-step instructions of the whole program and Novice course of tracking. I found the class room introduction very interesting and the videos/ slides and demostration's shown met my needs of an easy understanding and sparked an eagerness of need to learn and practice in the field of tracking.

I've learnt so much from the course and know I've only touched a small tip of the iceburg! The whole time was exciting and the hospitality of help, accomodations and meals were just awesome!!

Thank you every one for all your efforts put into making this course available. I came back home anticipating my involvement for the next one My gratitude goes out to you all, to the instructors and leaders that did a fabulous job of teaching! If anyone wants an interesting, exciting, new experience I strongly suggest in taking a tracking course. You will never look at the ground the same ever again and come away with knowing so much more than you did before!

Regards,
L. Schuler
Princeton, BC]]>
I am a MIT in training for SAR under Randy Rorvik/ Princeton, BC. I just attended my first Track Aware Course Gardom Lake Bible Camp/ April 15-17 2011. The instructors were all fabulous, informative with step-by-step instructions of the whole program and Novice course of tracking. I found the class room introduction very interesting and the videos/ slides and demostration's shown met my needs of an easy understanding and sparked an eagerness of need to learn and practice in the field of tracking.

I've learnt so much from the course and know I've only touched a small tip of the iceburg! The whole time was exciting and the hospitality of help, accomodations and meals were just awesome!!

Thank you every one for all your efforts put into making this course available. I came back home anticipating my involvement for the next one My gratitude goes out to you all, to the instructors and leaders that did a fabulous job of teaching! If anyone wants an interesting, exciting, new experience I strongly suggest in taking a tracking course. You will never look at the ground the same ever again and come away with knowing so much more than you did before!

Regards,
L. Schuler
Princeton, BC]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=33 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:50:43 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=33 Just a reminder that Princeton Ground Search and Rescue is hosting our 2'nd annual Camp Tulahead tracking weekend.
Friday, May 13 to Sunday, May 15, 2011
For more info: Info]]> Just a reminder that Princeton Ground Search and Rescue is hosting our 2'nd annual Camp Tulahead tracking weekend.
Friday, May 13 to Sunday, May 15, 2011
For more info: Info]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:15:00 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24 In House Classes on UTS Web Page for details and contact info.]]> In House Classes on UTS Web Page for details and contact info.]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=23 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:32:53 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=23 Roger Howe
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Another Night Mission
To: Administrator, Umatilla Tracker On 2/16/11 Wasco County Search & Rescue was activated to find a 53 yr old man with mental challenges in Dufur,Or. By the time I was tracking with two other trackers (Track aware/TrackerI) it was four o'clock with two hours of daylight left. We picked up his signature track (had a new shoe of his brothers which was the exact shoe design) and followed it until dark. We marked the tracks with orange chalk and taped the last track found. We actually followed the sign (compressions,toe kicks,heel marks,super short strides) for aprox 3 miles both in snow and dirt on a road. He had already been out for two nights and this was his third. Temps were in the teens and it was spitting snow. I then drove my off road Bronco until morning on near by skid roads, checked outbuildings,spotlighted,sound search's,mini-tracking on snow fields with another tracker on board. Day four we still had no definitive clues. I was called in late the next day to check out a track along w/Bonnie (TrackerII) from Deschutes County. I just about fell over when we discovered a fresh signature track (aprox 12 hrs old) on top of my Bronco tire tracks. He was only 40yds from the paved highway. This told our team he was alive, in the area and evading us! They called in a dog team from Benton Cty and found him hiding under a manzanita bush the next morning. He was cold but otherwise was in fine shape]]> Roger Howe
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Another Night Mission
To: Administrator, Umatilla Tracker On 2/16/11 Wasco County Search & Rescue was activated to find a 53 yr old man with mental challenges in Dufur,Or. By the time I was tracking with two other trackers (Track aware/TrackerI) it was four o'clock with two hours of daylight left. We picked up his signature track (had a new shoe of his brothers which was the exact shoe design) and followed it until dark. We marked the tracks with orange chalk and taped the last track found. We actually followed the sign (compressions,toe kicks,heel marks,super short strides) for aprox 3 miles both in snow and dirt on a road. He had already been out for two nights and this was his third. Temps were in the teens and it was spitting snow. I then drove my off road Bronco until morning on near by skid roads, checked outbuildings,spotlighted,sound search's,mini-tracking on snow fields with another tracker on board. Day four we still had no definitive clues. I was called in late the next day to check out a track along w/Bonnie (TrackerII) from Deschutes County. I just about fell over when we discovered a fresh signature track (aprox 12 hrs old) on top of my Bronco tire tracks. He was only 40yds from the paved highway. This told our team he was alive, in the area and evading us! They called in a dog team from Benton Cty and found him hiding under a manzanita bush the next morning. He was cold but otherwise was in fine shape]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:52:46 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=20 My Platoon has 5 Trackers, including myself, and we are going to soon be using our skill as a core task to cause effects. So I will probably be asking questions and looking for advice.
Forum looks great by the way. I look forward to getting to know you all]]> My Platoon has 5 Trackers, including myself, and we are going to soon be using our skill as a core task to cause effects. So I will probably be asking questions and looking for advice.
Forum looks great by the way. I look forward to getting to know you all]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:17:06 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19 s u b p o e n a. I finally received my first one due to tracking at a crime scene not too long ago. Obviously at this time not much can be said about it but it's been all over the news in Colorado Springs and a friend down there that saw it on TV told me that they were showing the tracking at the scene. That can only be a good thing. What IS public information, is this: http://thesidebar.freedomblogging.com/

I bring this up for a couple of reasons. I never thought I would be in this position with something as serious as this. It always seemed those were stories that I heard from everyone else. I certainly never thought I would actually GET a subpoena. We train for it, and we prepare for it "just in case", but that's as far as it's gone for me. So...thanks to Stan, Marv and Al for the patience in answering quite a bundle of general crime scene related questions over the last year or two, especially. It allowed me to put together a very detailed, accurate package of photos and notes that gave me full confidence when this went to court. It seriously makes me more comfortable knowing that if I go in to testify, I have not given out any details of any kind from that mission to anyone other than my SAR unit and the Sheriff. It ALSO makes me comfortable knowing that the instructors of UTS do back the students when needed, in a court of law.
I feel the training received has really focused on the things that are most needed at a time when something like this comes up. Learning how to thoroughly and accurately record and organize the facts so they could be assembled in accordance with the required format of the pertinent SAR unit and Sheriff's dept, saved time and kept the uniformity between my end report, and the "required" format, etc, of these specific units, that they expect to see.
I know without a doubt that this further instills in me, that need for GREAT notes, organization, and giving out any facts of the mission on a need-to-know basis ONLY. Whether it's a "simple" search or not, it's still a crime scene until we know different.
That's probably enough said. Things will still be going on for a few weeks, so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Thanks guys.

Dave
Signcutter
VP Rocky Mountain Trackers
719-649-0046]]> s u b p o e n a. I finally received my first one due to tracking at a crime scene not too long ago. Obviously at this time not much can be said about it but it's been all over the news in Colorado Springs and a friend down there that saw it on TV told me that they were showing the tracking at the scene. That can only be a good thing. What IS public information, is this: http://thesidebar.freedomblogging.com/

I bring this up for a couple of reasons. I never thought I would be in this position with something as serious as this. It always seemed those were stories that I heard from everyone else. I certainly never thought I would actually GET a subpoena. We train for it, and we prepare for it "just in case", but that's as far as it's gone for me. So...thanks to Stan, Marv and Al for the patience in answering quite a bundle of general crime scene related questions over the last year or two, especially. It allowed me to put together a very detailed, accurate package of photos and notes that gave me full confidence when this went to court. It seriously makes me more comfortable knowing that if I go in to testify, I have not given out any details of any kind from that mission to anyone other than my SAR unit and the Sheriff. It ALSO makes me comfortable knowing that the instructors of UTS do back the students when needed, in a court of law.
I feel the training received has really focused on the things that are most needed at a time when something like this comes up. Learning how to thoroughly and accurately record and organize the facts so they could be assembled in accordance with the required format of the pertinent SAR unit and Sheriff's dept, saved time and kept the uniformity between my end report, and the "required" format, etc, of these specific units, that they expect to see.
I know without a doubt that this further instills in me, that need for GREAT notes, organization, and giving out any facts of the mission on a need-to-know basis ONLY. Whether it's a "simple" search or not, it's still a crime scene until we know different.
That's probably enough said. Things will still be going on for a few weeks, so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Thanks guys.

Dave
Signcutter
VP Rocky Mountain Trackers
719-649-0046]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=18 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:15:49 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=18 Robert Cash,
Umatilla Co SAR]]> Robert Cash,
Umatilla Co SAR]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=17 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:38:53 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=17 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=16 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:59:39 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=16 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=15 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:20:43 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=15 And thanks to UTS for working with us in so many areas to make it happen. I've received several more inquiries about whether we will do this again, and these are folks that were not in attendance this time. When something works well, word of mouth can make a huge impact.
If you enjoyed the class, pass it on. Talk about the realities of what you experienced and invite people along!
I have reserved the same weekend for next May, bot with UTS and with the same facilities (La Foret). We only used a couple acres of the 430 available!
Contact me anytime to put your name in as a placeholder...no committment at this time, until it gets closer. I know about 6 that already said they will be there barring any unforseen circumstances. We can probably take up to 20.
Thanks again to all participants!

I am always available for emails or phone calls.

Dave
Signcutter
VP Rocky Mountain Trackers
719-649-0046]]> And thanks to UTS for working with us in so many areas to make it happen. I've received several more inquiries about whether we will do this again, and these are folks that were not in attendance this time. When something works well, word of mouth can make a huge impact.
If you enjoyed the class, pass it on. Talk about the realities of what you experienced and invite people along!
I have reserved the same weekend for next May, bot with UTS and with the same facilities (La Foret). We only used a couple acres of the 430 available!
Contact me anytime to put your name in as a placeholder...no committment at this time, until it gets closer. I know about 6 that already said they will be there barring any unforseen circumstances. We can probably take up to 20.
Thanks again to all participants!

I am always available for emails or phone calls.

Dave
Signcutter
VP Rocky Mountain Trackers
719-649-0046]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:24:39 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14
For the Tracker 1's it will be for practice only!

Course will take place @ http://www.camptulahead.com
Accommodations, meals and Instructor cost's will be $100.00

Contact Randy here for more information.]]>
For the Tracker 1's it will be for practice only!

Course will take place @ http://www.camptulahead.com
Accommodations, meals and Instructor cost's will be $100.00

Contact Randy here for more information.]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=13 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:21 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=13
I have a headlamp which of course doesn't have to go on my head. And it is adjustable both in brightness and focus. You can make it very dim if needed. I don't really understand why it wouldn't work just fine.

If someone could explain it to me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank You]]>
I have a headlamp which of course doesn't have to go on my head. And it is adjustable both in brightness and focus. You can make it very dim if needed. I don't really understand why it wouldn't work just fine.

If someone could explain it to me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank You]]> http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:17:08 -0700 http://www.utstrackingservices.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=12