We had our monthly field training Saturday 8-16-08. We went to the Menagerie Wilderness and practiced high angle pick-offs usig our main systems. 
Short video of lowering with litter
The menagerie Wilderness is about 1 hour from Sweet Home and has huge rock spires that abruptly stick-up out of the ground. A very interesting place. Saturday was the hottest day of the year. The temperature was somewhere at or above 100 degrees. It so sooo hot on those rocks...(how hot was it?)... It was so hot that the soles separated from the bottom of my boots. Apparently the adhesive liquified.
There were 12 of us that attended the training. We all drank a mountain stream worth of water. I drank over 4 liters of gatorade and water during the 7 hours of the training. I must have drank another 1.5 liters aftre getting home!
