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K9 Search and Rescue at 30,000 Feet
“How come it’s easier for me to jump out of the side of a helicopter at 13,000 feet with my avalanche dog to look for a dead guy than it is to talk to my husband about our relationship?”
I’m over two gin and tonics into my flight when I confess those words to a middle-aged Latino man sitting next to me inside the dimly lit cabin of the 747. I didn’t know him from Adam. Three-quarters of the way across the ocean from Miami to the Dominican Republic, my subconscious starts to bubble out like froth from a shaken bottle of champagne.
Finding The Lost and Myself
Digging Deep To Find Your Truth. As an accomplished, adventurous outdoor woman, Susan Purvis was as lost as anyone she’d ever found. Susan and her search dog Tasha became one of the best alpine canine search and rescue handlers in the US. Her unique expertise in wilderness medicine and gold...
How to Go From InviSible to InvinCible
Becoming your very best by helping others. In what areas of your life are you putting yourself first? It's a question we should be asking ourselves. As adventure tourism explodes in the high country of Nepal, guide fatalities are up 27% in the last year alone. They're so programmed to put...
The Miracle of K-9 Scent Detection
How to Connect with Our Creative, Productive, Life-Affirming Canine Partners. Every day our canines are telling us something. But because of our lack of understanding of animal behavior, we have no idea what they’re telling us. Thus, we miss great opportunities to grow and connect with our...
Finding My Purpose and Passion
If I can do it, anybody can In the 1970s, I was a scrawny teenager from the flatlands of northern Michigan with no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. I didn’t want to follow my mother’s life, raising three kids, working a secretarial job she hated, and smoking unfiltered Pall Malls. She...
Safety First! Training Mt. Kilimanjaro Guides at 19,000 Feet
Safety First! Wilderness Medicine Course and hand washing 101 for the Mt. Kilimanjaro guides in 2005. "Finger in your eye. Ten push-ups. Now!" Those of you who know me are either laughing or cringing. Why? Because, I just caught or have caught you in the act. In the act of what? Sticking your...
From the Mountains to the Meeting
My Journey to Becoming a Confident Female Leader When I was fifteen, during my first backpacking trip to the Bob Marshall Wilderness (The Bob), I learned to read a United States Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangle map. As a teenager from the flatlands of northern Michigan, the grandness of...
