Alpine Rescue Team Presents Free Safety Fair in Evergreen

EVERGREEN, CO – These are the people you never want to meet in the mountains ... unless you're in trouble. The Alpine Rescue Team, an all-volunteer mountain emergency squad will present a day's worth of winter mountaineering expertise in Evergreen on Sept. 22. The event is FREE.

The 2018 Alpine Safety Fair will feature presentations by experts in high-altitude medicine, expeditions, winter climbing and weather/avalanche safety, which will help you prepare for winter recreation in the mountains. You can learn about cold weather hiking, tour a Flight For Life rescue helicopter and participate in a raffle to win cold weather gear.

The event runs from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Alpine Rescue headquarters at 28802 Rainbow Hill Rd.

The Alpine Rescue Team has been helping with mountain emergencies since the 1950s. They never charge for their services.

Here is the2018 Alpine Safety Fair schedule, as provided by Alpine Rescue Team.

• 10:45 – Acute Mountain Sickness & Hypothermia by Dr. Skeet Glatterer, MD. Dr. Glatterer is a cardiothoracic surgeon and Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and has been a member of Alpine Rescue Team since 2005. He has served as an expedition physician for climbing companies on guided climbs to Russia, Africa, Nepal and Alaska.

• 12:00 – Team Dynamics: Picking Hiking Partners, by Alpine Technical Specialist Martin Barnett. He will also discuss his 2018 expedition leading a team more than 600 miles across Antarctica to the South Pole.

• 1:15 – Avalanche! Tips for Winter Climbing Fourteeners and Other Backcountry Adventures, by Alpine member Dale Atkins. Dale is a veteran of more than 40 years of mountain rescue, ski patrolling and avalanche science and is an internationally recognized avalanche expert.

• 2:30 – Mountain Weather and Avalanches by Mike “Coop” Cooperstein, Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Coop has been a weather and avalanche forecaster in the CAIC's Boulder office since 2015.

• 3:45 – Flight for Life of Colorado’s live helicopter landing and tour. See what the inside of the helicopter that Alpine uses for medical patient evacuations, “avalanche deployments” and “lift ticket” shuttling of rescuers look like and talk to the flight crew.

More than a dozen great items will be raffled off, including Sterling climbing ropes, Spyderco knives, MountainSmith packs, an REI tent, Echo Mountain lift tickets and EarthTreks day passes.

• Meet “Tuuli” and her handler Paula Bindrich, A Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado-certified search dog team.
• Meet Brad & Melissa McQueen, authors of “Exposed: Tragedy and Triumph in Mountain Climbing,” their story of survival, and rescue by Alpine, in 2001, when they and Brad’s father were stranded overnight on Mount Evans during a freak late-spring blizzard.

Exhibitors include: Denver Mountain Guiding, BCA-Back Country Access, PMI Rope, RSG Offroad, G-force Powersports of Lakewood, Per Sys Medical, Friends of CAIC; Clear Creek County, Jefferson County and Gilpin County Sheriffs Offices with snowcats and mobile emergency operations centers, Colorado 4x4 Rescue & Recovery.

For more information, go to http://www.alpinerescueteam.org/safety-education/alpine-safety-fair/. No reservations are necessary, the group said.

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