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North Shore Rescue members put their lives on the line JANE SEYD Jseyd@nsnews.com

HIGH-RISK RESCUES ARE ALL IN A DAY’S – OR A NIGHT’S – WORK FOR MEMBERS OF NORTH SHORE RESCUE, BRITISH COLUMBIA’S BUSIEST MOUNTAIN SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM.

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In winter, the Hanes Valley is an unforgiving place, a black and white moonscape where grey boulders poke out from dustings of snow.

Icy chutes have been scoured from the nearby ridges by landslides and avalanches.

At this time of year, the valley doesn’t look the way it does in the summer hiking guides.

In January, it’s a different country.

It’s here where 24-year-old Carl Couture is believed to have disappeared in November of 2017. Within days of his disappearance a storm moved in, blanketing the area with snow. He’s never been found.

Hanes Valley is among a list of names familiar to searchers: Suicide Gully, Montizambert Creek, Crown Mountain, Tony Baker Gully.

“It’s an area that you can get to within a couple of hours. Once you’re there, you’re very, very isolated and there’s no cell signal.

You can get turned around very easily,” said Mike Danks, North Shore Rescue team leader.

They are places where a person can get into trouble quickly.

That’s what happened to snowboarder Sebastien Boucher who went missing on Cypress after ducking under a boundary rope at the ski hill in 2012.

After three days of searching, rescuers spotted tracks from the air, leading into a gully.

When people are lost in the North Shore mountains, they almost always head down – it’s easier, and they think they’ll reach safety. What they find instead are dangerous waterfalls and drop offs that end in icy creeks. Heading down is a bad idea.

The first rescuer who went looking for Boucher was shocked, then, when he suddenly found himself face to face with the snowboarder, who was still upright and walking. “I can’t believe you’re alive,” the rescuer said. Boucher responded, “Me neither.”

On behalf of West Vancouver-Capilano constituents, we thank the skilled members of North Shore Rescue for volunteering your time and energy to keep us safe all year round.

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High-risk rescues are all in a day’s – or a night’s – work for members of North Shore Rescue, British Columbia’s busiest mountain search and rescue team.

Last year, the team responded to a record 226 calls for help.

The team got its start in the “Diefenbunker” era of the late-1950s, as a civil defence unit.

It quickly became apparent, however, that the need for wilderness searches was more pressing than protection from nuclear fallout.

Today, there are about 40 volunteer members of North Shore Rescue, skilled in everything

from helicopter hoisting to avalanche forecasting. A team of 10 advanced medical personnel – including nine emergency room doctors and an ER nurse – are also resources rescuers can call on.

It takes two years of training to become a full member of North Shore Rescue. Out of 100 people who most recently applied, only seven were accepted. The volunteer job comes with a big time commitment, as well a need for physical and mental stamina.

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I want to extend a big thank you to SAR volunteers for their commitment and hard work on the North Shore, in Lions Bay, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and across the Province. Supporting them with a donation is welcome as is being prepared for self-rescue and truly Adventure Smart as you Explore BC. - Jordan

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North Shore Rescue mourns founding member however, they were tasked with finding a young mountaineer who died in a fall from Goat Mountain.

“It took us two days to recover the body,” said Gerry Brewer. “It made us realize that we have to take a more serious approach to mountaineering and mountain rescue.”

”EVERYTHING THAT WE DID WAS DONE THE HARD WAY. THERE WAS NO HELICOPTER. NO SKIDOO. YOU TRUDGED AROUND ALL NIGHT ‘TIL YOU FOUND THE PERSON.”

Karl Winter, in 2015, holds a 50-year-old ad looking for new members for North Shore Rescue. MIKE WAKEFIELD/NSN FILE BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

It’s hard to estimate how many people are alive today because of Karl Winter.

Winter, one of the founding members and a lifelong mainstay of North Shore Rescue, died Dec. 31, 2021.

“Karl was just a legendary man. He was a mountain of a man,” said North Shore

Rescue team leader Mike Danks.

In 1965, Winter, along with brothers Gerry and Dave Brewer, was among those who answered an ad in the North Shore Citizen that sought volunteers for a civil defence team. During the Cold War, the authorities wanted a trained group ready to deploy if a nuclear attack led to collapsed buildings.

The attack never happened, but in 1968,

Winter was already a world-class mountaineer, and he was able to introduce skills and practices he acquired in his native Germany.

“Everything that we did was done the hard way. There was no helicopter. No Ski-Doo. You trudged around all night ‘til you found the person,” Brewer said. “Today, they do in three hours what we did in two days.”

Over and above carrying out hundreds of missions in the North Shore backcountry and beyond, Winter helped drive the team to adopt new equipment and practices, developing the team into what is now one of the busiest and most sophisticated volunteer search and rescue outfits in Canada.

In the field, he routinely carried injured

people and incredibly heavy gear through difficult terrain on his back.

“His physical stamina and strength is unmatched in anyone I’ve climbed with,” Brewer said.

Winter summited, or at least attempted, many of the major mountain peaks in the world, where he often was pressed into service to help aid in rescues of strangers in unfamiliar territory.

“It seems that if you have the skill, you’ll be in demand no matter where you are,” he said.

His generosity extended beyond rescues.

When he returned from a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro, he marshalled as many surplus rescue supplies as he could and paid to have them shipped to the poorly equipped Tanzanian mountain guides. After climbing in Nepal, he and his wife Mary took in a young Nepalese man and sponsored him to become a Canadian citizen.

“That’s the kind of person Karl was. He gave far more than he ever got,” Brewer said.

As a rescuer, Winter felt compelled to help, knowing how unforgiving it is to be injured, stranded or lost in the bitter wilderness, Brewer said.

The one time he was in need of rescue himself, Winter and three other climbers were just shy of the peak of Denali, Alaska, when they were caught in a ferocious storm.

He volunteered to climb down to a lower

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cache of supplies and return with gear that would help keep them alive until the storm passed and rescuers arrived from Anchorage.

“He was very empathetic for the circumstance that people find themselves in when they went missing or had an accident,” he said. “Because we’ve had the accidents. We’ve had the experience. We know how overwhelming it is to a person. … It didn’t matter the time of day, day of the week – birthdays, anniversaries. If the bell rang, he was always there.”

Having such a committed volunteer for a dad meant he wasn’t always around, said his son Greg, but Winter shared his love of outdoor adventure to his family.

“It just was like that from Day 1. …

I kind of respected him for that,” he said. “He just was a driven guy, and nothing really stopped him in his pursuits.”

Greg followed in his father’s crampons, serving with North Shore Rescue from 1999 to 2017.

Winter remained a North Shore Rescue member in good standing for 57 years.

When he was no longer able to go out “bushwhacking” as he called it, he oversaw construction and maintenance projects, did administrative work, public events and fundraising, and mentored new members.

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incredibly strong. He was patient with everyone,” Danks said. “There is no one that will be able to replace Karl.”

In his professional life, Winter installed massive sliding doors for industrial operations, where he used his mountaineering skills, sometimes dangling 40 feet off the ground and welding parts together.

Karl Winter in the 2020 Knowledge Network documentary Search and Rescue: North Shore.

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He and Mary were also internationally recognized breeders of St. Bernards, a dog popularly associated with mountain rescues in the Alps.

Greg said his father was never one to boast about his accomplishments around the home, and he’s been astounded by the stories coming out now from his friends and colleagues.

“I’m just blown away by the outpouring from the community,” he said. “It’s been pretty shocking and pretty amazing.”

THANK YOU to all the brave and dedicated volunteers of North Shore Rescue.

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Meet the talented dogs of North Shore Rescue BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

North Shore Rescue is unique among B.C. mountain search and rescue teams in that they have three validated search dogs, ready to hop aboard a helicopter or dash into the wilderness when time is of the essence.

Although they are each beloved members of their families, Chloe, Neiko and Dreki are highly trained working dogs. To be accredited by the B.C. Search Dog Association, it takes about 2,000 hours of specialized training over and above the usual housebreaking and obedience.

They then have to pass a test in which both the dog and their handler are judged as a team. To be validated, they have to plan and execute a search in a 500-square-metre swath of land, locating three hidden objects and a hidden human subject within 90 minutes.

Searchers and their dogs are such a tight team, it would be impossible for a different handler or dog to be subbed in and still work together.

Unlike the popular image of a bloodhound with its nose to the ground, scent tends to waft out on the breeze from its source in the shape of a cone. Once the dog has picked it up in its powerful olfactory nerves, it’s just a matter of following it, pacing side to side within the cone, narrowing it down as they get closer.

A ground team can cover a wide area on foot but still narrowly miss something in the

underbrush. A well-trained dog won’t make that mistake. If there’s any object out of place in the wilderness, a search dog will notice and alert its handler. It allows search teams to quickly rule out areas and concentrate their efforts elsewhere.

Apart from their searching capabilities, they bring another less tangible asset to the team – a sometimes badly needed morale boost for the two-legged rescuers when there’s a difficult search in the wilderness.

And not just any labradoodle will do. Searchers prefer German shepherds and Belgian Malinois – breeds that are known for having not only highly attuned noses, but also a strong drive to work and help their (human) pack. What really motivates them in the field, though, is the promise that finding something will lead to high praise and a fun game of tug with their trainer.

As of 2021, there were just 20 validated search dogs in all of B.C. It was Ellie Lamb who introduced search dogs to North Shore Rescue in 2014 with her Belgian Malinois Nan. Nan retired in 2019 and, sadly, died later that year. Roger Bean’s dog Chloe is the veteran of the North Shore Rescue dog team now, but Lamb and her new pup Dreki, along with Ryan Morasiewicz and his German shepherd Neiko, each earned accreditation and officially joined NSR’s dog team in 2021.

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Personality at home: Chloe has endless energy and drive and a knack for getting into trouble. She will pester you incessantly to get you to engage with her. She likes riding on things: chairlifts, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and, unfortunately, my motorcycle (I won’t take her for a ride on that but it doesn’t stop her from hopping up into my lap when I get on it).

Name: Chloe Favourite treat: She Age: six has never met a food is no ali Breed: Be lgian M she doesn’t like, but her Handler: Ro ge r Be an

Specialty in the field: Chloe is validated for both wilderness search and avalanche rescue.

Your proudest moment: When she makes a find that leads to a successful search, but also when she can search and clear an area quickly with a high degree of certainty that the subject is not in that area. That allows us to focus our strategy on other areas.

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Specialty in the field: Wilderness search profile.

Your proudest moment: Absolutely nailing his first search validation and showing what he is capable of.

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Name: Ne ik o Age: fo ur rd Breed: Ge rm an shephe w icz ie Handler: Ryan Moras

Years with North Shore Rescue: Six months as a validated SAR dog Personality at home: Dreki loves her family including our cat, but even at home she doesn’t leave my side and is always monitoring my location. If Dreki could, she would work 24/7. She was not born with an “off switch,” but alas she will snuggle in the evening, and just before going into her crate at night she will give everyone a big “hug.”

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Best attribute: Her most outstanding attribute is her athletic ability.

Favourite treat: Her favourite treat is a tug of war, Frisbee, snuggles and carrots.

Best attribute: Dreki is all business so she loves to search and she loves to track.

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Specialty in the field: Dreki is a validated wilderness search dog for the province. Although she is young, her focus, work ethic and determination stand out. There is no quit in her, and when we are responsible for a search area I am confident that Dreki leaves nothing behind. If someone is in there, she will find them.

Your proudest moment: Not one particular moment but an overall sense of pride in the dog she is becoming.

I like a thinking dog for search and rescue, and Dreki is just that. She applies in the field the important lessons she learned. I believe she has a strong future working together with the dog teams and members of North Shore Rescue. In doing so it is certainly our privilege to serve.

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Years with North Shore Rescue: Ryan, 10 years; Neiko, six months Personality at home: Balanced. He is always up for play, but also enjoys relaxing and hanging out with his human pack.

Favourite treat: Swimming fetch with his floaty Kong toy. Food-wise, whatever the baby happens to throw off her high chair before it can be picked up.

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North Shore Rescue gives dearly.

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When it comes to volunteering, 2021 was a year apart for North Shore Rescue.

Between rescues and training, the 45 active and 20 resource members put in 13,800 hours, according to the team’s estimates – about 4,000 more than their previous record.

While they don’t officially track the time they put in doing administrative tasks, fundraising, maintenance or public education, it’s likely there’s another 4,000 hours there.

”THERE’S A REAL BELIEF IN WHAT WE’RE DOING AS A TEAM – THAT IT IS MAKING A HUGE IMPACT FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND PEOPLE ARE PROUD TO BE A PART OF OUR TEAM.” “It’s kind of hard to fathom,” said Mike Danks, team leader. “I think it just becomes a part of your life, and you just need to find that balance that works for your family.”

There’s a host of backgrounds and skills within the team’s membership, but Danks said what’s common among all members is passion for the outdoors and a compulsion to help.

“There’s a real belief in what we’re doing as a team – that it is making a huge impact for the community, and people are proud to be a part of our team,” he said.

But, bringing people home and keeping families whole doesn’t come cheap.

Emergency Management BC covers the cost of helicopter time. Municipal grants cover about six per cent of their budget, while another 17 per cent comes from provincial grants.

Amazingly though, 51 per cent of the team’s annual costs for training and equipment are covered by cheques that arrive in the mail.

Another 15 per cent comes from donations online.

Because of their position next to Canada’s largest western city, North Shore Rescue gets a lot of attention, but Danks said it feels incredible to see that support.

“I can’t stress enough how fortunate we are,” Danks said. “Some of the notes that are written on social media and in the donation cheques, it’s really heartwarming to hear what people say and how they’ve been affected.”

People who have been rescued tend to be reliable donors. There are also community organizations and events that help the team, like the Rotary Ride for Rescue.

But there’s always a worry that funding will dry up or donations will tail off. With

the volume of rescue calls climbing higher every year, the team has hard costs that won’t change. To keep various certifications current, like long-line rescues or avalanche assessments, training is constant. And gear wears out and needs to be replaced.

North Shore Rescue, in partnership with Talon Helicopters, is on the cutting edge of long-line And, no, charging for rescues rescue technology. MIKE DANKS/NORTH SHORE RESCUE is not on the table, nor will it ever be, Danks said, no matter how many Facebook have reached the end of their useful lives. comments there are telling them they And Danks wants his members trained to do should. Fear of being charged for a rescue helicopter extractions in darkness. will delay people from calling for help.

“Our night hoist program is a very costly That makes the search more difficult and venture, but it’s one that we believe in, and risky for everyone, including the team. And we feel very confident that it will save lives charging people for being rescued would be and also provide additional safety for our antithetical to what motivates volunteers to members at night,” he said. get out of bed and head into the mountains in the first place, he added.

Anyone who does contribute to the North Shore Rescue can know they have some There may come a time when it’s no longer ownership in the team’s success, he added. possible to carry out the team’s duties on a volunteer basis alone, Danks said, but for “If we didn’t have the community supporting now, they must rely on others’ good will to us, we would not be able to do what we’re keep them going. doing. We wouldn’t have the equipment. We wouldn’t have the high level of training,” If people want to target their donations he said. “I really see it as the community to a specific program or capital need, empowering us.” sponsorships can be arranged, he added.

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north shore news nsnews.com But the team he worked to build has not only survived, but embraced change and taken on new challenges since then.

Most recently, the rescue team and Talon Helicopters – partners for over 30 years – got the first approval for a civilian team to fly a Dauphin helicopter with night vision goggles, and new hoist capabilities.

But the advances haven’t been slam dunks.

In the case of night vision flying, “When we talked to the province, we got laughed at,” said Danks. But the team refused to take no for an answer.

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long after they’ve happened.

The man’s body was eventually dug out of the avalanche field the next day.

For Danks, a tragic avalanche death on Mount Seymour in 2019 is among those.

Two snowshoers had been hit by an avalanche that had left one man dangling from a tree on Runner Peak. He was able to phone rescuers, telling them he’d been calling to his friend, who wasn’t answering.

It wasn’t until later that day that a helicopter was able to sneak under the cloud cover and long line the stranded snowshoer to safety. But there was no sign of the second man. Avalanche risk then halted the ground search. That’s when Danks got a call telling him the missing snowshoer’s mother was at Mount Seymour with shovels.

“I sat with the mom and held her hand and tried to explain the gravity of the situation,”

Danks, the 45-year-old leader of the team, has been part of North Shore Rescue for 26 years.

His dad, Allan Danks, was a team member and search leader when Danks was growing up.

Danks later trained under the late team leader Tim Jones, whose larger-than-life personality and all-consuming dedication to the team are still the stuff of North Shore legend. When a rescue call came in, Jones was known for deciding what to do first and seeking permission later.

When Jones died at 57 of a heart attack on Mount Seymour on Jan. 19, 2014, it was a shock.

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“WE’RE ALL MOUNTAIN PEOPLE. SO WE’RE ALL COMFORTABLE ON SKIS, OR CRAMPONS, OR ROPES.” Unique to search teams in Canada, North Shore Rescue has also developed a 10-person advanced medical provider (AMP) team, made up primarily of emergency room doctors, who are able to deliver critical care in extremely remote locations.

“We’re all mountain people. So we’re all comfortable on skis, or crampons, or ropes,” said Alec Ritchie, an emergency room doctor at Lions Gate Hospital who also works with ski patrol at Whistler.

Between 30 and 40 per cent of the calls are medical, and up to 30 per cent of those are serious.

Without the backup of hospital diagnostics, doctors and nurses in the field have to rely on their own assessment skills.

“Experience is really key,” said Kayla Brolly, a Lions Gate Hospital ER nurse who was a rapid-attack firefighter and a ski patroller before joining North Shore Rescue. “It’s not a place for beginners.”

While there’s plenty of excitement, there are also personal sacrifices that come with being on the team.

When the pager goes off, it’s most likely to be when friends are arriving for a barbecue or kids have prepared a Father’s Day brunch.

In recent years, the team has put more emphasis on sharing the load.

For Danks, he realized he didn’t have to attend every call when he saw the impact it was having on his daughters.

In recent years, the demand for the outdoors fuelled by the pandemic and beautiful shots of pristine lakes on apps like Instagram have only increased the number of people heading out into the backcountry.

Many take on challenges beyond their abilities.

Over the years, however, the team has maintained a staunch position against asking people to pay for their rescues, despite occasional public debates.

What keeps them going is knowing they’re making a difference, said Julie Van de Valk, one of the youngest members of the team who oversees training for new recruits.

“I’m pretty grateful for that opportunity. Even if it is sitting under a tarp on Christmas Eve eating pasta primavera out of a bag, instead of turkey dinner. If you can help people in what, for some of them, is one of the worst days of their life ... that is worth a lot.”

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