Events

CAMRA Map & Compass Navigation Class You will learn how to: Read a topographic map Orient a map to your surroundings Find your location on a map Confidently determine your route and direction of travel  Differentiate True North, Magnetic North, and Grid North Compensate for magnetic declination and deviations Calculate your pace count ...and many […]

Team Skills Rescue Workshop (TSRW) Tuition: $2000 (7-Day) The TSRW is ideal for industrial and wilderness rescue teams and is designed to begin where the Personal Skills Rescue Workshop leaves off and carry on into more demanding rescue practices and team-building skills. This, and the PSRW, are the workshops that fulfill the "90% solution" on most rope rescues within industry […]

Join us for the 23rd Annual Swiftwater Rescue Rodeo. Bring a team, join a team, or volunteer to be rescued! Learn more and Sign up!

Team Skills Rescue Workshop (TSRW) Tuition: $1750 The TSRW is ideal for industrial and wilderness rescue teams and is designed to begin where the Personal Skills Rescue Workshop leaves off and carry on into more demanding rescue practices and team-building skills. This, and the PSRW, are the workshops that fulfill the "90% solution" on most rope rescues within industry and […]

We hold the Advanced Skills Rescue Workshop (ASRW) only one time during any given year. It is a seven-day seminar dealing with the remaining “10% Solution.” This rigorous course “for wizards” applies some aspects of the Team Skills Rescue Workshop. Yet it goes well beyond both of these in intensity of rigging and application of physical principles.

Why is this the Tree Rescue Workshop-Firefighter needed? And better yet, WHY NOW?

Trees present difficult rescue solutions as they are a foreign environment to emergency personnel. In a way, they are very much like tower rescue in that they begin at the bottom with the victim or casualty high up in the branches. How can a firefighter gain access from the ground to this elevated location and get the person needing rescue down? Even better than that, how can this be done safely and in a timely fashion? These are the basic components of the Tree Rescue Workshop— Firefighter.

Tactical Wilderness Rescue Workshop (TWRW) Tuition: $1200 Dates: 18 - 21 October The TWRW seeks to explore solutions for a safe and efficient minimalist wilderness rescue. It is designed for the serious wilderness search and rescue (WSAR) practitioner wishing to improve their personal rigging skill and capability in the backcountry, off the beaten path, and […]