Bryon Gustafson

Well, and that's one of the things that we learned from search and rescue too, is just how challenging it is to actually go find a human being that is lost.

Sure.

Like you just said that you relied on thermal, if I understood that correctly.

But if you're just going based off of a person's last...

Hopefully you have that information.

Trying to find that person and they could meander 15 miles in some direction that doesn't make sense.

For anybody who's going to go into the backcountry and think that search and rescue is just going to come save you, you need to think again.

Because very, very, very rarely do they save you.

occasionally they find your body, but saving you, you know, you need to do that yourself.

And so educating yourself when it comes to living and being in the back country of Montana is so important.

Right.

So the Montana Pilots Association works with us on this as well.

We do ground to air signaling.

Yeah.

Right.

Using the signal mirror.

And it was interesting to find out from them.

They want to actually send more pilots this year because they only did one aircraft last year.

Yeah.

The pilot, first time trying it with us this year, said he had no idea where we were at.