HOW TO JOIN SUMMIT TO SOUND
If you want to volunteer service to your community, make new friends,
expand your list of skills and have a ball doing all this; joining a search
and rescue unit may be a good route toward achieving these goals. The path
we take may be a logging trail, a streambed or across a snowfield, but the
scenery is often breathtaking and the destinations are as diverse as the
people who participate in Search and Rescue (SAR).
Summit to Sound currently has four groups with additional groups
forming and recruiting. Current groups are “ground-pounders,” “dog
handlers,” and “ATVs,” and "Swiftwater."
- “Ground-pounders” hike across field and forest, streambed and tidal
flat, through briars and nettles and heather in an effort to find missing
or lost persons.
- “Dog handlers” use a trained dog as a partner in “ground-pounding”
activities, and also go out in boats with their canine partners.
- “ATVs” ride the trails searching, providing containment, or
transporting equipment and personnel to designated points.
- “Swiftwater” swims and boats the lakes, rivers, and any other body of
water they can find.
- "Horse riders" ride their horses while searching and performing other
search & rescue activities.
All groups welcome new members. Those who have no skills in these areas
can be trained to become a vital sinew in the cable of help that extends
from “summit to sound.”
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