Rescue team member

offers safety advice
to North Shore hikers

THIS FALL was busy for the North Shore Rescue Team, .
which was at times out searching for a lost hiker. neaziy

every weekend.

Volunteer rescuer Allan
McMordie — a 10-year volunteer
with the rescue team —- says that
when darkness falls more quickly,
some hikers get caught unawares.
McMordie offers these safety tips

’ to local hikers.

-@ Take a flashlight, and be par-

. ticularly careful at the end of Oc-
tober whea clocks are turned back |

an hour. McMordie says the most

“common reason hikers go astray is
‘thet they are surprised by nightfall,

and he bemoans the number who

-\meglect to take a flashlight. with
“them. “If they carried a flashlight, -

“they ..wouldn’t need. the extra
. clothing and food (they packed in ..
-. case of emergency),”” he said.

© Tell somebody where you are

going and when you will be back. —

Ifyou are overdue, that person

‘should call the West. Vancouver

». iPoliceor North Vancouver

=" RCMP. They will call the North

“Shore Rescue Team, which will
come to find you.’ hog

© If you are ‘overcome by dark-

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ness, stay where you are and listen
’ for the whistles and shouts of the
search team.

‘’McMordie says that when lost
on a North Shore mountain, the
worst thing to do is to try to follow
a creek down to safety.

Although the creek beds start
quite wide, they narrow towards
the base of the mountain and the
canyon walls get steeper. It can be
the last mile or two “‘before civili-
zation,”’ he says, that can. be the
worst to travel in.

Instead, if it is light out, hikers
should climb to the top of the
“ mountain,’ where McMordie says

they are sure to find a trail. “‘If it’s
light and you have the energy to
move, go up.”’

At the top of the mountain, a
helicopter can see you, you've got
a better idea of the lay of the land,

-. and you'll have a better chance to

hear-the rescuers calling than if

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you’re near a creek, he says.

© Be aware that the search team
will be looking for you. As soon as
the North Shore Rescue Team is
contacted, it will start a search? It
is on call 24 hours a day, every day
of the year. ;

MeMordie joined the rescue
team when he ‘‘saw the opportuni-
ty to combine my interest in first
aid with my enjoyment of the out-
decors.”

He is currently an apprentice
Search Master. Search Masters
manage all aspects of the search
operation; once contacted by pager
by the RCMP or West Van Police,
the Search Master decides how
many searchers to call out, where
to assign them and how to cordon
off the area. The Search Master
acts as the police liaison, coordi-
nates outside agencies such . as
helicopters and boats, and deals
with the press.

McMordie says that when lost
hikers are found, you'd think their 10-YEAR niember of the North Shore Rescue Team and veteran of over

first reaction would be relief, but . 100 searche, Allan McMordle has a number of tips to belp bikers stay
‘si¢’s_ difficult to be overjoyed outof dang.

when you're really kind of embar-
rassed.,.. They are embarrassed

been put into finding them.”

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