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Author Archives: kisar1986
January IRIC Training
KISAR is planning an Incident Response Incident Commander (IRIC) course as our January training. The dates will be January 22nd and 29th. This is a basic search management course for those who are tasked with the initial management of a search. … Continue reading
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December WFA Training
For KISAR’s December training we brought Deb Ajango of Safety Ed to Kodiak for an intensive weekend Wilderness First Aid course. Deb is an amazing instructor and we always enjoy her deep experience and compelling delivery. KISAR has developed a … Continue reading
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November meeting and training
KISAR will be holding a general membership meeting on Wednesday, Nov 17 at 7:00 PM at Bayside Fire Hall. Following the meeting we will present information regarding a Two Tensioned Rope System (TTRS) . TTRS is the technical rescue rigging … Continue reading
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KISAR March Snow Stability Training
On Saturday March 20, KISAR members climbed Pyramid Mountain to the upper Jibber Bowl and conducted snow stability tests including hand hardness assessments and conducting extended column tests (ECTs). New snow had fallen overnight and during the day but most … Continue reading
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KISAR March Meeting
We were hoping to cover safe avalanche terrain travel, avalanche awareness, and snowpack stability assessment this month. The snowpack is currently rock solid so not very interesting to do stability tests on, but we will tentatively stick to the topic … Continue reading
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KISAR February Avalanche Transceiver Training
On Saturday Feb 20, KISAR members met at the Pyramid Pass parking area to conduct a field exercise with avalanche transceivers. We ran through a number of demonstrations of how modern transceivers interpret flux lines and how a buried beacon’s … Continue reading
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KISAR meeting February 18
KISAR will hold its general membership meeting Thursday February 18 at 7 PM at Bayside Fire Hall. This will be our first in-person meeting since before the spike in COVID cases in the fall. With the last official positive test … Continue reading
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KISAR December Termination Point Geocache Training
Last spring when COVID first emerged I created a geocaching course out at Termination Point for our April training as a safe way for members to do something SAR-adjacent when we could not get together for a normal training. I … Continue reading
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KISAR October Training
KISAR members met at the Pyramid Mountain parking area at 10 am and hiked up to top of Jibber Bowl at about 1500’. They assembled the SKED litter and then belayed a simulated patient down with a harness-mounted belay device … Continue reading
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Remembering Lydia
Lydia Cullum joined KISAR in September of 2018. Since that time, she became a valued and integral part of our team and KISAR family. At every stage in her involvement with KISAR, her enthusiastic hunger for developing new skill sets, … Continue reading
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