Too Much Driving...: July 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Cascadia Highline - 7/24/2010

Thought I'd add a few pictures from our "highline" training from last weekend... Highlines are one of the more complicated rigging tasks that we do in our mountain rescue operation. In general, they require a lot of gear and a lot of people to operate efficiently, but when you REALLY need to transport a rescuer and subject across a span, it's one of the best ways to do so. Anyway, enjoy the pics! :)

Scott attaching himself to the rigging as the "patient" attendent

The operating crew deep in rigging related though! :)

And we have lift off!

For this exercise, our "span" was the S. Santiam river at Cascadia State Park.

Certianly one of the more scenic locations for this training! :)

In this picture, a Norwegian reeve is added to the highline to lower Mike to a "subject".

This rig allows the rescuer to move both horizontally and vertically without having to adjust the tension in the track-line (ie, it's easier).

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Odds and Ends - June and July

Summit of Battle Axe

Mel and Mt. Jefferson

Yep, that's pretty exciting Nate...

Salmon Falls on Opal Creek

The newest member of the westcoasttrips family!!! :) (the motorcycle that is...)

Mt Jeff from up French Creek

Detroit lake, Tumble lake (sorta hard to see), Tumble Rock and Needle Rock

More of the same mostly...

Cool little pond!

Yep, Mel's pretty excited about another hundred miles on the bike...

Mel on Quartzville creek (yeah, we covered a lot of ground, there were some sore asses involved)

Okay, so Aaron also has a wondercamera, and he just dropped off his Zion pics the other day... Yeah, makes my point and shoot stuff look like crap! Very artsy! All creding goes to Aaron Hartz for these pics, I'm just shamelessly reproducing them here cause I couldn't help it...