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Black Labrador Female

Whelped: August 4, 1995

1. Avalanche Certified 3/97- Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado (SARDOC)

2. Wilderness Airscent Certified 5/98- Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado (SARDOC)

• Missing bow hunter, Gunnison County, 9/02

• Missing campers, Gunnison county 7/02

• Missing hiker, Gothic Colorado 07/02

• Suicide Victim, Flat Top Wilderness, Garfield County, 8/02

• Missing Bow Hunter, Monarch Pass, Gunnison County, 09/02

• Called to Paonia, Colorado for overdue hunter 09/02

• Called to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park 09/02

• Called for missing hunter 10/02

• Called by SARDOC to Great Sand Dunes National Monument, missing hiker 10/02

• Four overdue hikers/climbers, Gunnison County, CO 11/01

• Located Missing 12 year old Hunter, Gunnison County, CO 10/01 LIVE FIND!

• Missing Fisherman,Gunnison County, CO 9/01

• Missing Hiker, Gunnison County, CO 6/01

• Missing Child, Gunnison County, CO 10/00

• Missing Hunter, Garfield County, CO 10/99

• Missing Hunter, Gunnison, CO 10/99

• Missing Hikers, Gunnison County, CO 8/98-10/98

• Car Accident, missing person, Gunnison, County, CO 9/98

• Missing Hiker, Gunnison County, CO 7/98

• Missing Hiker, Eagle County, CO 1997

• Missing Hunter, Gunnison County, CO September 1996

• Avalanche, Located 1 snowmobiler buried 6 ft deep, Chaffee County, CO 3/9/03FIND!

• Avalanche, Located 1 snowmobiler buried and killed, Chaffee County, CO 3/6/03 FIND!

• Reported Avalanche, Missing skier, Gunnison County, CO 3/00

• Reported Avalanche, Missing skiers, Gunnison County, CO 4/99

• Reported Avalanche, 3 caught, buried and killed, Gunnison County, CO 2/99

• Reported Avalanche, Missing person, South Arapaho Peak, CO December, 1999

Water Search

• Located Drowning Victim, Lake Fork Bridge, Gunnison County, CO 8/11/01 FIND!

Specialized Courses

• 3 day Human Remains Detection Course, Shirley Hammond, Cortex, CO 6/02

• 3 day Wasatch Backcountry Rescue Avalanche Rescue Dog Seminar, Alta, UT 4/97

• 3 day Urban Trailing Seminar- Andy Rebmann, Colorado Springs, CO 5/01

• 7 day Basic Canine Cadaver Course with Andy Rebmann, Seattle, WA 9/ 01

• SARDOC Wilderness Training 1995- Present: Training schedule is weekly in various disciplines including wilderness, water, avalanche, articles, cadaver and obedience.

• Ski Patrol Area Training: Loveland, Aspen Mountain, Crested Butte, Copper Mountain, Alta, and Monarch Ski Areas from 1996 – Present

• Backcountry avalanche training and demos include Irwin lodge, Monarch Pass, Vail Pass, Elk Mountain Grand Traverse

• Colorado SAR Board Conference, NASAR Conference

• Building searches

• Water searches with dive teams and cadaver scent

• Cadaver imprinting

• Urban Avalanche training with local fire department

• Helicopter Hot loads with US Military

• Scent Discrimination Line ups with Law Enforcements

• Agility and rubble training

• Trained with Dog handler teams in the following states: CO, MI, MT, UT, WA, WI, WY

• Avalanche Dog Team for Elk Mountain Grand Traverse 1998, 99, 2000, and 2001

• Crested Butte Professional Ski Patrol, Crested Butte, CO 1996, 1997

• Backcountry Ski Guide, Irwin Lodge, Crested Butte, CO 2001,2002

• Crested Butte Search & Rescue, Dog team handler and team leader 1995- Present

• Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) Reaccreditations, Crested Butte SAR, 1996 and 2001

• Called to be on Stand by for the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

Publications

• Featured in Smithsonian Magazine, August 1997

• Featured in Crested Butte Magazine, July 1999

• Featured in The Gazette Newspaper, Colorado Springs, CO Feb 1999

Updated March 8, 2003

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