Utah county SAR motorcycle gang

[mesha]

I was talking to a SAR friend and was telling me about a relatively new motor cycle team. They are official SAR and have to do the regular old fruited and stuff and then go through a cycle course. They have to ride with the current team for about a year before they get on. Sounds pretty cool and the big plus is they can cover a whole lot of ground in a hurry.

 

[Jinx]

SAR= search and rescue?

 

[mesha]

Yep SAR=search and rescue.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

I'm not versed on the Utah Co. SAR but for SL Co. it is pretty difficults and very time intensive to get on their team (non probation status), like hundreds of hours a year and lots of money out of pocket. Sometimes I wish I didn't have so much travel going on already.

 

[Caleb]

A guy I work with (one of our developers) is on the SL Co. SAR team. We talked to him about a motorcycle crew and he said they don't have one and really have no use for one. He said for SL Co., most of the rescues are on foot only trails and are in areas a m/c would be more of a burden than anything.

It would be very cool to be on the SAR team though. I've never spoke to him on what it takes to get on the team so I have no clue.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

A guy I work with (one of our developers) is on the SL Co. SAR team. We talked to him about a motorcycle crew and he said they don't have one and really have no use for one. He said for SL Co., most of the rescues are on foot only trails and are in areas a m/c would be more of a burden than anything.

It would be very cool to be on the SAR team though. I've never spoke to him on what it takes to get on the team so I have no clue.

That would make sense, SLCo doesn't have any 'single track' that are only accessible by motorbikes, everything is OHV or hiking only. I suppose they could motorbike into some of the ex-dirtbike routes but the controversy is mitigated by just hiking. Utah Co on the other hand obviously has a rocking inventory of single track that would best be searched by motorbike.

SLCo's are here:
http://www.slsheriff.org/searchRescue/joinTeam

From what I gather you have to make it to 65% of call outs, training & meetings in your first year. There are ~100 per year and can last anywhere from 1 hour (plus drive time) to full day. I know Seth Bowers was involved in SLCo SAR some years ago, there might be some other RME'ers that could chime in with some actual info too.

Found Utah Co's here:
http://ucssar.org/search-and-rescue/join/

 

[Caleb]

That would make sense, SLCo doesn't have any 'single track' that are only accessible by motorbikes, everything is OHV or hiking only. I suppose they could motorbike into some of the ex-dirtbike routes but the controversy is mitigated by just hiking. Utah Co on the other hand obviously has a rocking inventory of single track that would best be searched by motorbike.

SLCo's are here:
http://www.slsheriff.org/searchRescue/joinTeam

From what I gather you have to make it to 65% of call outs, training & meetings in your first year. There are ~100 per year and can last anywhere from 1 hour (plus drive time) to full day. I know Seth Bowers was involved in SLCo SAR some years ago, there might be some other RME'ers that could chime in with some actual info too.

Found Utah Co's here:
http://ucssar.org/search-and-rescue/join/

That's good info, thanks!

An interesting read taken from the Utah Co. page, a newbs first year on SAR.
http://ucssar.org/proby.htm

 

[Medsker]

That would make sense, SLCo doesn't have any 'single track' that are only accessible by motorbikes, everything is OHV or hiking only. I suppose they could motorbike into some of the ex-dirtbike routes but the controversy is mitigated by just hiking. Utah Co on the other hand obviously has a rocking inventory of single track that would best be searched by motorbike.

SLCo's are here:
http://www.slsheriff.org/searchRescue/joinTeam

From what I gather you have to make it to 65% of call outs, training & meetings in your first year. There are ~100 per year and can last anywhere from 1 hour (plus drive time) to full day. I know Seth Bowers was involved in SLCo SAR some years ago, there might be some other RME'ers that could chime in with some actual info too.

Found Utah Co's here:
http://ucssar.org/search-and-rescue/join/

Being retired the time I can put in. I just need the medical certification of at least First Responder. I own my truck, my snowmobile and I rock climb and mountain climb. I think it would be a blast to do it. I just need to find a school close by that does the first responder stuff.

 

[mesha]

Kurt is right the team is really hard to get on.

We still need to get a first responder class set up. Scheduling is tough though.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Kurt is right the team is really hard to get on.

We still need to get a first responder class set up. Scheduling is tough though.

Wintertime is best time of year for me... but still tough :-\

 

[Medsker]

I'm in anytime...except holidays