As you may know, in search and rescue, the only constant is that nothing is ever the same. The person needing rescue and the rescuers alike continually face challenges in topography, weather, alpine and sub-alpine environments, shear face to low angle rock, snow and ice, lost or injured subjects, the potential to search for more than one subject - in different locations - at the same time, etc. As potential rescuers, whether volunteer SAR members or employees of a large corporation, each of us must personally and honestly scrutinize our own skill level and that of each team member. Regardless of location, we must know that each of us can handle rescue situations with confidence. An actual emergency is not the time for skills-assessment. Do it now, for your own safety, for SAR members and for your work associates.


NWSOS employees have years of backcountry and mountain search and rescue experience. They not only participate in SAR but have also been instrumental in planning and implementing ground and air rescue operations for years. If members of your SAR team or your employees lack any of the following skills, let us design a rescue program specifically tailored for your group. You can book training year-round for all applications - mountain, desert or the plains.

Choose from the following specialties:
Rescue Design and Preplans
Rope Rescue
Knots
Anchors (natural, artificial, multiple, unifying)
Belays
Raising and Lowering Systems
Rigging for Rescue
High Lines
Tensioning Systems
Mechanical Advantage
Ascending Systems
Rapelling
System Assessment
High Angle Rescue (Big Wall)
Crevasse Rescue
Glacier Travel
Navigation for Air and Ground Rescue
Map and Compass
GPS
Avalanche Awareness and Rescue
Emergency Shelters
Rescue Signaling
Resources
Helicopter Training (Insertion and Extraction)
Tracking
Survival (Cold Weather/Arctic, Mountain/Wilderness, Tropical and Desert)
P.O.D. (Probability of Detection – all aspects)
Patient Packaging
Tower Rescue