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Telemark / Snowshoe Specialist

Searchers from the Bedford County Wilderness Search Team must meet special training before being permitted to search or assist at a search and rescue incident with telemark skis or snowshoes.  The necessary training for telemark skier or snowshoe searcher includes a minimum of NASAR SARTech II, basic wilderness first aid, arctic / winter survival training, basic mountaineering training, ice rescue course, and wilderness rescue training.  A telemark skier or snowshoe searcher is required to have an awareness level in avalanche rescue.

 

Bedford County Wilderness Search Team, Inc.
PO Box 445
New Paris, PA 15554
bcwst@bcwst.org
 

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