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“This is a truly inspirational book about the incredible people who risk their lives to save others.” --Sadie Trombetta, BustleMountain search-and-rescue volunteer Bree Loewen’s to-do list isn’t quite the same as most people’s. On any given day, it might include:Go grocery shoppingBake pie seen on PinterestFigure out what to do with my lifeRescue climbers caught in avalanche on Chair PeakPick up Vivi at Mom’sA former Mount Rainier climbing ranger and trained leader in mountain search-and-rescue, Bree shares the drama and the camaraderie of this work, as well as the challenges of trying to fit her other roles as wife and mother into what is still largely a masculine environment. In a fearless voice—disarming yet laced with dark humor—Bree guides us through intense recoveries, vivid wilderness landscapes, and the warmth she discovers in motherhood, community, and purpose.

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Bree Loewen's Found: A Life in Mountain RescuePublished by Mountaineer Books.Reviewed by Bill HokeEditor, Olympic Mountains Trail Guide 9-2017This is a gritty book, hard edged but 100% straight as Loewen chronicles her remarkable life in mountain rescue. She responds on a moment’s notice, day and night rescues, storm filled, rain, rain and more rain, pulling survivors out of avalanche debris and carrying victims back to base wrapped in a rescue blanket, a parking lot of rescue vehicle headlights where she checks in, makes a report, says ‘You are welcome' to survivors and victims standing In the cold, waiting to go a hospital or talk with a medical examiner where the body should go and then, hours or days later, she drives home alone, somehow processing the highs and lows of another mountain rescue.This is no book for the faint hearted. There is often nothing pretty about finding the remains of a climber who has fallen –bounced -- their way down a rocky gully or rappelling into Snoqualmie Falls to pick up the pieces of a suicide. There are body parts aplenty and those going into the back country, up peaks, going cross country should maybe stop to appreciate how fragile the human body is and how unforgiving ‘nature’ can be.You don’t have to climb vertical rock or be fifty miles into the wilderness to get into trouble. Lives are irrevocably changed, people die, sometimes minutes from a trailhead. Having been rescued (twice) in the wilderness, one perspective I took away from this book is that while waiting for my rescues, I was rehearing what I would say to those risking their lives to come and get me, what rationalization I could make, what apology I could offer and both times I learned the rescuers did not care at all, nor did they expect any explanation.When a hiking partner ran out of gas, and nerve, deep into the Olympic Mountains back country on day seven of a planned nine-day hike down the Bailey Range, we waited for rescue for 36 hours, plenty of time to go back over mistakes, miscalculations, thinking how we were going to explain why we could not move when there was nothing broken, no injuries. Rescuers arrived and took over, making no judgments and asking for no explanations.A few years earlier, also in the Bailey Range, my climbing partner fell on his butt in a steep gully and it tore loose his retina and we waited for several days while he was slowly losing sight in his eye; we tried to force our way out but he could not climb, some young men found us, ran 17 hours for assistance and the thump of a helicopter the next morning signaled our rescue. Again, no explanations required, just the rush to get him medical care.People get into trouble in the mountains and Bree and the teams supporting her don’t care how it happened, That someone went into the mountains unprepared, or worse, for the calamities that can befall day hikers, climbers, suicides, demented, trapped in snow melt tree holes, hanging from trees, buried in snow or mud, hanging on a cliff edge or crying from a bone that is poking through an arm or leg— all that is important here is rescue. No whining is needed and no thanks are expected. The beautifully human part of this book is the author's self-deprecating dismissal of any notion that she is a heroine and the fact that she has another life, a child, a husband, parents to babysit for her and a life she can call her own which she fills with climbing and being outdoors, baking pies and volunteering for hospice when not rescuing people. But rescue calls always come first, before self, child, family or work. The book is divided into chapters, each describing a rescue or two and often some wonderful asides, personal, relevant, fair and honest.When she takes us on a rescue of a fire fighter, unable to proceed (or go back), tied to a tree after ‘getting stuck’ climbing Guye Peak near Snoqualmie Pass, we get a lesson in trying to keep a rescue party safe on notoriously poor rock in the middle of a rain and snow storm. When the weather clears, they can look down on hundreds of cars and trucks, crossing the pass, unaware of the drama unfolding above. There is no remonstrance after literally pulling this climber up hundreds of feet — a six-hour direct pull on a badly stretching rope — after a harrowing rescue and then getting he and the rest of the team safely back down into the parking lot.For hikers and climbers in the Middle Fork, Snoqualmie Pass, Granite Mountain — those mountains and familiar place names, Kendall, Chair Peak and Red Mountain might be recalled as simple day climbs and hikes but when Loewen is texted to plan and execute a rescue, we see those innocent places as huge inhospitable challenges, when the snow is up to the armpits, you are traversing under cornices and unstable slopes, trying to find the correct gully before the victim dies, another reminder of how close we are to big trouble, sometimes avoidable, sometimes not, and how careful and prepared we need to be.There is no reminder in this book to be sure to take the ten essentials, to be prepared to splint an arm or leg, have adequate shelter in a storm, matches, even, for a fire. The bottom line take-away here is that however unseen and unacknowledged, dozens of unpaid first responders are standing ready, prepared to give up a child’s birthday party, a meeting at work, a microbiology final — ready to drop everything and jump into a car and rush to a trailhead, weather notwithstanding, ready to push back into the wilderness, climb all night, wade a river or rappel into blackness, make a rescue, often putting their lives at risk, all for no recognition or thanks, regardless of how thoughtless, unnecessary, or just caught by bad luck we victims are.If you go into the wilderness, one of the first things you might want to do after reading this book is to write a generous check to your local mountain search and rescue organization. They do dozens, hundreds, of rescues every year and you want them to have fresh ropes and rescue pulleys, proper litters and splints, gas for their trucks. Don’t you?Bill Hoke is a Kitsap-based hiker and climber and has hiked several thousand miles in Olympic National Park. He is editing the fourth edition of The Olympic Mountains Trail Guide and has authored two books of mountain poetry.

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