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Michael died on July 25, 2026, mountain-biking one of his favourite trails in Squamish.

To my mom.

From my twitter post on the topic, archived here https://twitter.com/lithohedron/status/1179475264771739648 Recently, A local SAR team rescued a hiker that was abandoned by her group and it bothers me, a lot.

With the recent death and recovery of three people from Shannon Falls, several of whom have confirmed to have been prolific travel vloggers and instagram personalities, the idea of selfies being hazardous has reached the level of articles in the Vancouver…

On November 20th my SAR team was paged for a missing dog walker in the Coquitlam area.

Hey, it’s another self reflective blog post about the year in review.

Recently, both Canada Parks Mountain Safety and Kananaskis Country Public Safety Section have posted on Facebook about accidentally triggered Satellite Emergency Notification Devices – also known as SEND.

I’ve posted many times before about the importance of using Social Media in SAR – both from the perspective of communicating to the public about what your team is doing, and for investigating a missing person.

Emergency Management BC published the yearly summary statistics for emergency response in BC and like last year I did some analysis.

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