Ep. 1029: Behind the Scenes of Search & Rescue - Revisited - Moose Mutlow
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Originally published March 21, 2022
Moose has over 30 years of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. He has course directed 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, been a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert, managed a beach concession on the Mediterranean, slogged through Australian rain forests with middle school students, juggled as a street performer in too many cities to mention, has more than 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting, spent four months as the Interim Head for an elite ski academy, and recently returned from teaching a canoe program for Veterans on the Gulf of Mexico.
Since 2002 Moose has been a member and senior trainer of Yosemite Search and Rescue, working as a technician and within Incident Command, at one of the busiest SAR operations in the world.
Moose currently works for NatureBridge in Yosemite National Park as the Senior Projects Director for planning, design and construction of the National Environmental Science Center.
Moose has been the Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officers for the National Park Service teaching trainings in Yosemite, Arches, Smokey Mountains, Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
Find out more about Moose:
instagram @moosemutlow
His books:
Searching : Finding purpose, laughter and distraction through Search and Rescue
When Accidents Happen: Managing Crisis Communication as a Family Liaison Officer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:10.5 | Today we are throwing it back to 2022 when we had Moose Muttlo on the show. |
| 0:15.0 | Moose ever since 2002, he has been a member and senior trainer for the Yosemite Search and Rescue working as a technician |
| 0:22.9 | with an incident command at one of the busiest search and rescue operations in the world. |
| 0:27.4 | Yosar, Yosemite Search and Rescue, is so prestigious. |
| 0:31.5 | It's one of you, like I just said, one of the best and busiest operations in the world. |
| 0:36.1 | Moose is very important there. |
| 0:38.0 | And today he's talking us about his experience. |
| 0:40.8 | He also has years and years and years of guiding and wilderness field instruction experience. |
| 0:47.6 | And we're going to be talking about his book called Searching, Finding Purpose, Laughter, and |
| 0:52.2 | Distraction through Search and Rescue, just about his experience. A lot of us go out and distraction through search and rescue. |
| 0:59.5 | Just about his experience, a lot of us go out and enjoy these places like Yosemite and different national parks and wild areas or out in the ocean. |
| 1:03.2 | You know, one reason we get to go so confidently out there and we get to enjoy them is because |
| 1:08.7 | there's this infrastructure of search and rescue. People like |
| 1:11.8 | Moose who are there when things go wrong to help you get through it. And yeah, they have saved |
| 1:18.4 | countless lives. It's an amazing service. It's an amazing thing that constantly gives back to society. |
| 1:25.7 | And we're going to talk to what it's like to be in this world |
| 1:28.8 | and maybe how you might be able to get involved, too. |
| 1:31.2 | So I hope you enjoy, and this is kind of part of our unofficial series |
| 1:34.7 | about all those peripheral supporting things in society |
| 1:39.1 | that make adventure possible. |
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