Date: September 6, 7, and 8, 2019
Time: 0800 a.m. Friday Sept 6 through 2:00 p.m., Sunday Sept 8
Location: CYO Camp Howard, 11010 SE Camp Howard
Road, Corbett, Oregon 97019.
Course Cost: $360 payable to Pacific
Crest Trackers Association,
C/O Ron Glaus, 3465 Frontier Drive, N.W. Salem, Oregon 97304
$100
deposit required to reserve space in this class, due by August 23, 2019.
Meals & Accommodations: Dormitory style
accommodations are provided Thursday Sept 5
(4 p.m. check in) through Sunday Sept 8 afternoon. Meals and snacks are provided from Friday
Sept 6 at 7 a.m. through Sunday Sept 8 lunch.
There
are NO prerequisites for this training presentation. This tracking course is open to all persons
with tracking interests regardless of previous experience or training and will
focus on primary training for beginning or novice student interests. This will
be a certification course for all eligible students. All tracking students will be provided
training at an appropriate level for their development and upward progress.
Course Content: This will be a 24
hour course beginning at 8:00 a.m. Friday Sept 6 with registration and lecture
including power point presentation to provide Novice and Basic tracker
understanding of training methodology, techniques and procedures. The presentation supports field training by
providing student understanding of training methods, manner and
objectives. “Tracking” is a first
response primary search resource used to verify witness statements, establish
the “PLS”, direction of subject travel and following the physical evidence to
the missing person. Field training will
allow “student tracking team” experimentation and “hands-on” practice of fundamental tracking techniques. Novice students will progress from initial
identifying a print, to “step-by-step” every track concept of following an
identified sign line and practical tracking team response.
This
is a “skill development” training program for Apprentice and Journeyman Tracker
students. Students at these levels have
acquired Basic Tracker understanding and will be introduced to practical
tracking techniques and applications necessary to become a viable resource for
SAR missions. Students at all training levels will be individually challenged
with additional advanced tracking concepts and techniques. Journeyman Tracker
students will be provided advanced training objectives working with Novice and
Apprentice students and separately in simulated actual SAR and law enforcement
mission scenarios.
Please
bring to this training course your current training manual and tracking logs.
Should
you anticipate challenging the certification board for advancement: Please
advise your trainer in advance so that person may prepare a recommendation and
your training records; you must bring your personal tracking and training logs
and records.
Student Needs: Students should be physically fit and equipped for SAR field response. Field practice will continue during any inclement weather, students should be properly prepared with wet/dry, cold/hot weather gear. Knee pads may be helpful. Students need to bring a pen/pencil, note pad, small measuring tape, 5/8 inch doweling or similar, 36 to 40 inches long, with three rubber bands to use as a tracking stick and a three cell flashlight. Signed copies of Joel’s book are available by direct contact with Joel
Registration: Students must
pre-register by August 23 for this course with a $100 deposit. If you have any
questions regarding the class or class location please contact Ron Glaus at (503)
269-4258 or by email
Send
your deposit to: Pacific Crest Trackers Association- c/o Ron Glaus, 3465
Frontier Drive N.W., Salem, Oregon 97304.
Pre-registered
students failing to attend this course without a reasonable excuse will be
assessed the $100.00 service fee.
Sponsor Information: This course is
sponsored by Pacific Crest Trackers Association. All interested law enforcement
and SAR volunteer personnel are invited to attend.