WILDERNESS FIRST AID: How to manage blisters

SWIFTWATER RESCUE: The defensive swimming position

LOST PERSON BEHAVIOR: Data on lost hikers

SAFETY NOTICE: Check your Petzl ZIGZAGs for cracks

Download info here.

Source: Roo Fox-Rockley via Journal of Search and Rescue (JSAR)

ROPE RESCUE: Litter rigging—The chest tie-in

LAND NAV: Free PDF downloads of USGS generation 1 & 2 quadrangles now available via Google Maps Gallery

• Gen 1 Traditional scanned paper quad download page
• Gen 2 Modern layered digital quad download page

NOTE: To access the download option for a quad, click on the green button, center-quad

SOURCE: Loren Pfau of the Alpine Rescue Team, via NASAR

Wilderness First Aid “Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain in Remote Environments,” by Katie W. Russell, et al., March 2014 issue of the Journal of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

Read article here.

LIGHTNING SAFETY: How to reduce lightning risk in the backcountry

Source: "Lightning Risk Management for Backcountry Campers and Hikers," by Ken Langford, including graphics by John Gooken, published by the US National Weather Service and National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)

ROPE RESCUE: Highlines—How to rig the English Reeve

LAND NAV: How to interpret slope contour patterns on topo maps

HOMING BEACONS: Use all the tools in the toolbox, from the March 2014 issue of New Zealand Search & Rescue's "Link" magazine

Read the full March 2014 issue here.

SAR HUMOR

Source: Fernando Moreira via Tactical Trackers Group

WILDERNESS FIRST AID: The Five Second Rule – Six Ways you can Reduce Pauses in Compressions and Save More Lives with CPR

Read article here.

AERIAL OPS: Spotting techniques for area searches

WILDERNESS SKILLS: How to melt snow on a stick

MAN-TRACKING: Work the ‘path of most resistance’ when signcutting

ROPE RESCUE: Tying the radium 3-to-1 load-releasing hitch

SAR HUMOR

Source: http://www.gocomics.com/theothercoast/2014/03/22#.UzK8YFf3Ka  via NASAR

SAFETY NOTICE: Call for inspection of Yoke-brand “snap / rebar hooks” for “improperly spun” rivets

Learn more here.

Source: Wade Sarver via the Rope Test Lab

WILDERNESS SKILLS: How to stay warm in the bush

Read article here.