Hi Brad, Last year, I saw an account of the rescue of a senior citizen Inuit hunter by several young Inuit men that went searching for the overdue hunter. The hunter had gone out on a snowmobile. For reasons I don't remember, the hunter got stuck far out in the tundra in heavy snow. There were carabou heards in the area. After a time the rescue party found the abandoned snowmobile and tracks leading away from it. They tracked the old man but then lost the tracks in the blowing snow. they lost the tracks in the confused areas where the heards of carabou had passed through. Each time they lost the tracks, they set out making larger and larger circles around the last known track until they again found the hunter's tracks. After a long time and many lost and found tracks, they found the old man entirely disabled and near dead in the snow. They put the man in a sleeping bag along with three of the rescuers. They hauled them all back to a village on their snowmobiles. The hunter survived thanks to the stunning determination and skill of the young men that went searching for him. -------- I expect that Mr. Kim will be found somewhere not too far from where his pants were found. I believe the only way to find him alive would be a search conducted along the lines used by the Inuit searchers. It would likely require many searchers radiating out and in constant communication with one another. Using dogs? I don't know how dogs do at tracking in snow. Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
skimmer wrote: > Using dogs? I don't know how dogs do at tracking in snow. Pretty much as well as in anything else as long as it isn't melting quickly and washing away the scent. Avalanche dogs can find people under several feet of compressed snow. Foxes in the arctic hunt by scent and find smaller critters that burrow under the snow. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
According to news reports, dogs and horses were on standby, but were not used because of the steepness and irregularity of the terrain, plus the additional snow cover. One searcher was injured yesterday, and had to be evacuated. Bradford R. Crain Department of Mathematics and Statistics Portland State University 724 SW Harrison St. 334 Neuberger Hall Portland, Or. 97201 e-mail: crainb_at_pdx.edu phone: 503-725-3127 fax: 503-725-3661 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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