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Marin County Search & Rescue hosted the International Conference on Mountain Rescue June 15 - 18. It was an amazing weekend with gorgeous weather and packed days of learning for all!

Post Conference Photos and Links:

Please check back here often as we will be putting up numerous post conference items such as, winning photos from the photo contest, links to handouts from the lectures, tshirts for sale and much more. At this time we have no lost and found items from the conference. The local paper, the Marin IJ ran an article about the conference. Link to Marin IJ Article

Lectures:
Some of the lectures were the results of MRA Research Grants. More information is available about those classes on the MRA Grant site. Dr. Jo Feldman taught a great class on High Altitude Medicine, and has made available her handout on High Alititude Medicine.

Photos:
A local freelance photographer took over 900 photos of the conference and has them available here to view and/or purchase. We are also aware that lots of the conference participants have photos that they took. If you would like to share them, we can link to your online photo album or we can provide access to our online photo gallery for you to upload them to. Please contact our webmaster.

Conference Overview:
The MRA Workshop and Conference offered hands on exercises, opportunities to discuss the various solutions to the field problems, and created a forum for dialogue on the similarities and differences within the Mountain Rescue Community.

We incorporated the following SAR areas with interactive group exhibitions: Technical Rock, Cliff Rescue, Helicopter and Wilderness search venues and conduct exercises and trainings utilizing each visiting team’s resources and specialization.

The Conference was held at the Headlands Institute located on the southwest edge of Marin County, where the Pacific Ocean meets the San Francisco Bay. It is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the largest urban national park in the world. The Institute is surrounded by over 140,000 acres of coastal park lands from the Golden Gate Bridge to Point Reyes National Seashore. Overlooking the calm waters of Rodeo Lagoon and the crashing waves off Rodeo Beach, the Institute provided a superb venue for the 2006 MRA Conference.