First, our lost soul showed up last Thursday, right on time. It takes 10-14 days to build up the gases that float a someone to the surface around here. Three of the guys went down and recovered her body to be sent home to her family.
Tuesday night we went out to Brush Hollow and found a lost fisherman who got his car (a car, not jeep, not suv) in to a place ATV'rs don't even go. Call-out at 10:45pm, back home at 4:30am. I still can't figure out how he got a car into where he was at. Interested in finding out how he got it out.
Friday started three days of tracker training with the folks from Universal Tracking Services, out of Oregon. Although my knees are sore from crawling around on all fours, all weekend, Marlys and I will, as they say, "never look at the ground the same way again".
Sunday after getting back from tracking class, we got called out at 11pm to search for a missing mom and daughter in the Beaver Creek Drainage. This is a place we go to a few times a year, as it is easy to get off trail. The country is pretty rough and communications is difficult.
Besides seeing a trailer load of search horses flip-over on the way in, Marlys and I spent the night going up and down different gulches whistling, and calling. By morning as our teams burned out from being in the field all night, SAR teams came in from a number of counties, even the Army at Fort Carson sent a Medevac Helicopter (Lakota).
A El Paso/Douglas County team found the Mom and daughter walking down a trail about noon. Good going guys. Scratched up from bushwhacking, but OK.
Remember, if you get lost, don't wander around, hug-a-tree (as we tell the 5th graders).
Holiday weekends can be active, let hope this one isn't.
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