Dr. Don McPhalen, medical director for Kananaskis Public Safety, and International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR) medical commission (MEDCOM) member will be in Fernie on December 11. Dr. McPhalen spends a lot of time in the field with K-Country visitor safety and avalanche forecasters so is in a good position to understand the real life field challenges of AvSAR medical response in Canada.

He is kind enough to offer us a current medical update and best practices refresher as it relates to avalanche rescue response. There should be time for some Q&A as well. He just gave a similar talk for the CAA/ACMG continuing professional development workshop in Revelstoke this fall, so this is a great opportunity for those that missed it!

When: December 11, 2017 @ 7:00pm

Where: Slopeside Cafe, Fernie Alpine Resort

See you there!!

New rope rescue techniques (DCTTRS) workshop and assessment

Initial training on the Boost HEC CDFL equipment to establish an operational CDFL team.

Help Sparwood with training exercise

This will be an on water training day. Covering skills and hopefully another river assessment.

This will be our first session on the water, we hope to have a raft to do a tour of the river to asses for new hazards as well as going through the skills covered on the training course.

This will be our first training session this year, it will be indoors but all members need to complete the online swiftwater awareness course prior to this session.

Avalanche rescue scenario hosted at Fernie Alpine Resort

this is the overnight survival required for the GSAR trainees but any  trained SAR member is invited to attend

Navigation - 

GPS, GIA, Smart phones, GPS & maps exercise

Introduction to the new data management system/website D4H