XPost: or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On 13 Dec 2006 11:26:46 -0800, "hal lillywhite"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Bill Shatzer wrote:   
   >   
   >> >>Ya' notice that Hal Lillywhite's been missing from this newsgroup the   
   >> >>last 36 hours or so?   
   >   
   >> >>He's up on the mountain, looking for those folks.   
   >   
   >> > Is he a Crag Rat?   
   >   
   >> Portland Mountain Rescue, I believe.   
   >   
   >Right, PMR.  However I wasn't up there Sunday or Monday, I was doing   
   >the in town stuff, consulting with deputies, getting volunteers to go   
   >etc.   
      
   A necessary skill, probably even More important than being an   
   individual searcher.  Good on ya!   
      
   >I did go to out looking for them Tuesday though conditions kept   
   >us out of the areas we really want to search.  We did what we could.   
      
   Sometimes it just can't ever be enough.   
      
   >And no, I was not in a mountain division in the army.  I was a   
   >paratrooper.   
      
   I did SAR back in northern Minnyusoda, when I was on the National Ski   
   Patrol and with the MN Army National Guard.  There weren't mountains,   
   but there were frozen swamps and -40F temperatures to contend with.   
      
   No easy thing at all.   
      
   Good on ya, Hal!   
      
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