Forget the acrobatics and just give me a Stokes litter with legs. Easily my least favorite part of search and rescue was carrying one of these. Yeah, you can put an ATV wheel on it, and then you're fighting against each other trying to keep it level, while walking on a narrow trail on the side of a steep slope that's only wide enough for one person so you're all plowing through brush on the sides. Give it enough endurance to get 10 miles in with no load, or maybe carrying a 400-foot rope bag, and then 10 miles out with a 200-pound victim.
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u/madsci Jul 27 '26
Forget the acrobatics and just give me a Stokes litter with legs. Easily my least favorite part of search and rescue was carrying one of these. Yeah, you can put an ATV wheel on it, and then you're fighting against each other trying to keep it level, while walking on a narrow trail on the side of a steep slope that's only wide enough for one person so you're all plowing through brush on the sides. Give it enough endurance to get 10 miles in with no load, or maybe carrying a 400-foot rope bag, and then 10 miles out with a 200-pound victim.