🥾 Ground Search and Rescue
Ground search operations, techniques, and procedures for wilderness SAR.
🚶 Pace Counter
Pace counting is a way to estimate distance traveled by counting your steps. Calibrate yourself by walking a measured 100m on flat ground and counting your paces (one pace = one foot strike, or count every other step for a "double pace"). Save your number below, then this calculator will tell you how many paces equal any distance.
Type into either field — the other updates automatically.
Distance
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Paces
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Set your paces per 100m, then type a distance or a pace count.
Tip: Your pace count changes with terrain — uphill, snow, dense bush, and heavy packs all add paces. Re-calibrate for the conditions you're searching in when accuracy matters.
📌 More content coming
This section will include:
- Search theory and probability
- Search patterns (grid, line, hasty, etc.)
- Clue awareness and evidence preservation
- Searcher safety and field protocols
- Lost person behavior
- Team organization and assignments
- Night search operations
- Wilderness survival skills
- Search documentation