SAR CON 2025: Navigating the Wilderness Together: Psychological Safety in SAR Teams
When the mission gets messy and seconds count, how can SAR teams reduce errors and work together with trust? As both a SAR volunteer andresearcher, I’ll share findings from my dissertation research with volunteer teams to explore how high-reliability practices and psychological safety
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
This presentation will focus on empowering experienced mountain rescuers with advanced, practical rope rescue techniques designed for independent small-party operations.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: 9.5mm Pick-off Systems
A hands-on clinic that will compare a variety of component-based pick-off methods, highlighting use cases for each and welcoming attendees to try the systems for themselves. Harnesses are recommended if you wish to participate.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: Panel Case Review: Lightning Strike at 14,000 ft
An in-depth multidisciplinary panel review of a complex high altitude extrication of a lightening strike victim. This case review brings to focus the
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: If I Just Jump, it Will Be Easier
The Summit County Rescue Group will present a deep dive into a complex call occurring at 14,000’ on Quandary Peak. Topics highlighted will be interagency operations, resource utilization, and mental health considerations in SAR when dealing with subjects in life threatening situations.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: 80 Hours of SAR or 8 Hours of PSAR
Public backcountry safety education, otherwise known as preventative search and rescue (PSAR), is a fundamental strategy for decreasing or controlling the volume of preventable calls BSAR teams must respond to.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: Swiftwater Rescue- Principles, Equipment & System Forces
This session explores key aspects of swiftwater rescue, including essential gear, rescue techniques, and the forces acting on rope systems in dynamic water environments.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: Span Anchor Fundamentals and Limitations
Explore the application and limitations of span anchors. Are they strong enough? Are they useful? Here we will introduce the practicallity of how and when to implement these positioning anchors for effective and timely rigging.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: Controlling Maximum Arrest Force
The system choices we make and the attentiveness of the operator can provide significant control of the maximum arrest force should the two rope system suddenly become a single rope system. This session will explore those relationships in real time.
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  • Live Onsite
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  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00
SAR CON 2025: A Searcher's Guide to UAS
Designed for search leaders, ICs, and anyone curious about how UAS can (and can’t) support BSAR, this session offers a practical look at integrating
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  • Live Onsite
Credits
  • 2.00 Operations
Cost $0.00

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