Ice Safety Sheet 

NOTICE: These pages are no longer being updated! Please go to:

http://WeberSAR.org for the new web site. Thank you!

MRA 2007 Conference Info, Click here! 

Weber County Search and Rescue Teams are under the direction of Sheriff Brad Slater. The teams are: Climbers/Winter Backcountry; Divers/Swiftwater/Airboats; K-9; Logistics; Medical, Mounted Posse; OHV/Search; Winter Rescue/Snow Cats; Preventative SAR (PSAR). These teams work together to provide a resource for the citizens of and visitors to Weber County, Utah. If you are interested in joining one of these units please contact the sheriff's office at (801) 778-6600.

Important Links in this Site

Current Newsletter and Events: 

• Low Resolution (~200 KB to 3 MB) WCSSAR May Newsletter  (For dialup connections.)
• High Resolution version (~3 to 10 MB) of the May Newsletter. (You can zoom in on the pictures in the high resolution version.) 
• The Climb Team personnel skill standards. [updated 3/5/07]
• Ogden City Fire Department Ride-a-long forms. You MUST be a member of WCSSAR in good standing to participate in this program. 
• The NEW WCSSAR logo: Low Res (140 kB); Med Res (374 kB); Med Hi Res (1.8 MB) 

Training Notes:

• Incident Command System (ICS) presentation notes.
• Fitness test links: the 1 page Overview/Definitions and the detailed 33 page Instructors Guide.
• 2005 Intermountain Region MRA team accreditation document. 
• Knots, Radium Release Hitch and other roped rescue links can be found here.
• Computer slides for John Sohl's search theory class. 
• Avalanche Safety Card (If you want the mm scale boxes the correct size then tell Acrobat Reader to print at 100% and uncheck the "fit to page" box.) This is the 2009 version. 
• Ice Safety Sheet. Warning, this is a 3.4 MB file. 

Safety First!

•  The Utah Avalanche Center: Forecasts, Snow safety, etc. 
• Summer Backcountry Safety, A handout on staying safe in the mountains.

Images: Loads (hundreds!!) of images by Weber County Sheriff's Search and Rescue team members have been loaded onto the web site. They are ordered by date (most recent listed first). Please note that these are raw images that have not been cleaned up, retouched, modified in any way. If an image is dark, usually, you can easily fix it for example. Sheri can supply high resolution images to you as needed--just be aware that we all have day jobs and response for images may not be instantaneous. ;-)

Note! We are currently working on the web site and will be moving all pre-2005 images to other pages--either in the training or rescues (missions) sections.

• August 2005 ATV training for the public.
• August 2005 - Garrett Bardsley Search
• September 2004 - Life Flight hoist and LZ training. 
• May 2004 - swift water field training. 
• March 3, 2004 - Jeff Showing superior rope handling techniques.
• September 2003, Project Lifesaver training of the trainers.
• Here are a few misc. images of the SAR trailer, a damaged ATV from a search and Brad and the state helicopter. 
• Tyrolean traverse training images, April 2002.