On The Hill Refresher
From TBSPedia
The On The Hill Refresher is usually scheduled for the second weekend in December, and is intended to simulate a patrol day, complete with incidents, paperwork and field skills. The OTH should be dedicated to patrol day activites; classroom exercises should be the focus of the Operations refresher.
Summary of past Refreshers:
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Mandatory Topics
- Leadership and Radio Communications
- Navigation (between stations)
- OEC Evaluations, interventions and patient packaging
- Avalanche searches: transceiver and probe-line searching
Rotating Annual Topics
2008
- Backcountry Toboggan Skills
- Brooks Range Sled
2007
- Avy Aware Route Planning
- Avy Aware Field Decisions
- Patient Transport
- Winter Survival: fire, water, shelter
2006
- Filling out TBSP forms (Equipment Sign-out, DOL, Missing Persons, Medical Assistance)
- Preliminary Incident Command System (1st responsder, led by Patrol Leader)
- Loose-line SAR technique
- Interviewing a Reporting Party (missing persons report)
- Backcountry Toboggan Skills
2005
- Makeshift Sleds: construction and Patient Transport
- Rope Rescue and Dynamic Toboggan Transport: Z-pulley
- Shelters: Trench and Megamid Setup
- Snow stability tests and safe travel (go/no go decision making)
2004
- Makeshift Sleds
- Rope Rescue: Z-pulley
- Sheters and Snow Stability/Safe Travel evaluations
- Advanced Megamid Setup
- Snow stability
