SAR Fundamentals/Ready Pack

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* Pincher SAR's Ready Pack recommendations: page 2 of [[PCSAR DOC-113 New Member Package]]
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* {{link|Image:Members:2011-02-26 06 48 07u-scan.pdf|form for preparing your own ready pack}}
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* {{link|Image:Members:2011-02-26 06 48 57u-scan.pdf|list of equipment in Jake's vest}}
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* [http://marinsar.org/Training/24pack.htm Marin County Search and Rescue 24 hour pack] (dead link, use: {{link|Image:Members:Marin-County-SAR-24-hour-pack.pdf|cached copy}})
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== Frequently Asked Questions ==
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
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Why don't you carry a sleeping bag?
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== Question bank ==
== Question bank ==
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What equipment a search and rescue worker should have ready to take to a search

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Brett Wuth

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SAR Fundamentals Manual: Ch.10 "Emergency Preparedness Kits - The SAR Ready Pack"
Basic SAR Skills Manual: Ch.5 "Outdoor/SAR Equipment"
Ready pack demo

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Total Time: 60 minutes

  • 2003-10-19 09:33-10:20: 0.8h
  • 2011-02: 09:25-10:22: 1.0h
  • 2013-02: 70 min


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A ready pack is the equipment you take with you into the field.

  • support you in any circumstances possible to encounter
  • could be 24 hours without contact (24-hr ready pack)
  • any type of weather could set in (or already be happening)

Some teams in an urban setting have less stringent expectations

Pack is always ready

  • don't spend 45 minutes trying to gather your stuff after you've been called-out


keep your ready pack pristine

vs. use your ready pack regularly (recommended)

  • you know how to use your equipment
  • you cycle items that expire
  • use it for recreational, or for work, as your safety kit on vehicle trips



Distribute form for students to design their own ready pack.

The pack itself:

volume: 20 to 35L

packs without frames (bags)

  • cheap
  • light
  • very uncomfortable to carry any significant weight

external frames

  • old style
  • most new ones are junk
  • cheap
  • bulky
  • heavy
  • can carry significant weight

internal frames

  • modern style
  • metal slates inside back
    • can be bent to fit your back
  • light, but not as light as bags
  • can carry significant weight

frames distribute the weight

  • typically 70% on hips, 30% on shoulders
  • can change while hiking for comfort

adjustments

  • compression straps - compresses the load, attach items to exterior
  • front shoulder straps - height on back
  • hip straps - fit and weight on hips
  • top shoulder straps - distance and angle on back, weight on shoulders
  • sternum strap - angle and position on shoulders
  • side straps - sway of load

most important when buying a frame pack

  • go to a reputable store where they'll spend 20 minutes fitting a pack to your back
  • find the right size
  • test with real weight in the store
  • good place: Mountain Equipment Co-op



How to pack

Heaviest stuff low down

  • so it doesn't leverage you backwards

Heaviest stuff close to your back

  • so when you turn not a lot of weight to spin

Protect against drenching when falling/dropping in water

  • 1 large bag
  • or bags for everything that can get soaked/damaged

Advantage to using lots of bags:

  • bags tend to slip against each other rather than having contents tangled

Organize into sacks

  • quick to find the right sack, then right item from sack
  • compression stuff sacks - make things smaller

Mix of loose and tight sacks

  • all tight: creates voids of unused space
  • all loose: tangle

A few items clipped on the outside of the pack, in side pockets. What you don't want to put down pack to access.



have a student completely pull apart every item from an extensive ready pack (e.g. Brett's)

Discuss what item is for.

group discussion: What is the most unreasonable item in the pack? What is missing?



72-hour box

  • emerging practice in SAR

Kit to bring to search base in case you're asked to stay longer.

  • tent
  • change of clothes
  • extra food
  • store off-season items from ready pack



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Cost of a pack?


Why don't you carry a sleeping bag?

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Copyright © 2012, Brett Wuth. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

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