Miscellaneous Items from Other Reports:

In one rescue on Mt. Rainier, an improvised sled made of an Ensolite pad and sleeping bag was successfully used to lower a victim 500 feet.

Several rescues made use of visual ground to air signals.

One rescue saved many man-hours by placing a radio with ground- party frequency and a rescue observer in the rescue helicopter. There was a very low overcast and almost zero visibility except for a partially clear spot about a mile from the accident scene. Split-minute evacuation timing and a safe course to the lift-out point was obtained by talking the pilot up a river valley by a series of ground radios, each station in the chain talking him over them as he came into range.

Tables indicating the comparison of the results of the first two years of gathering statistical information on the activities of organized mountain rescue groups in North America follow. Twenty units reported in 1963, and nineteen in 1964, or about 60% of the known mountain rescue groups on the continent.