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PostThu Mar 22, 2018 3:37 am 
No! komonews.com Search and Rescue is NOT going to put their lives at risk to search for bodies!

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PostThu Mar 22, 2018 7:52 am 
I thought that was normal and already practiced.

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PostThu Mar 22, 2018 1:35 pm 
If people go into the backcountry with the idea that if anything happens someone will come rescue them, they've already made the wrong decision.

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PostThu Mar 22, 2018 4:09 pm 
treeswarper wrote:
I thought that was normal and already practiced.
It is, but the families of missing people aren't always thinking about that in the middle of the crisis.
Chico wrote:
Search and Rescue is NOT going to put their lives at risk to search for bodies!
And they might not even do it for live people either. With the two hikers who activated their locator beacon on the PCT last October, SAR teams from two counties turned around because it was too dangerous. (The helicopter managed to get the hikers out safely a day or two later.)

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PostFri Mar 23, 2018 6:46 pm 
An important principle of SAR is : "No new victims"

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PostFri Mar 23, 2018 10:59 pm 
treeswarper wrote:
I thought that was normal and already practiced.
Missing my point! Repeat! Will people listen? No!

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PostSat Apr 07, 2018 8:20 pm 
Avelanche danger has been raised to HIGH for North Cascades West, South Cascades South, and Rainier on Sunday on NWAC. Very unusual for this late in year. BEWARE!

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PostSat Apr 07, 2018 8:39 pm 
If I'm reading it right, anywhere that picked up much new snow with this precip we're getting now is up there in risk. Not a shock.

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