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Trail Rescue Australia provides specialist rapid response UAV SAR, trail medical support, advanced field skills training and emergency logistics support for hikers, trekkers, expeditions and Police and Emergency Services.
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We also offer courses for hikers, park rangers, tour guides and first responders to empower them with specialised training and knowledge to sharpen their skillsets for hiking and working in remote areas.
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CORE SERVICES
Trail Rescue Australia provides specialist rapid response UAV SAR, trail medical support, skills training and logistics support for hikers, trekkers, expeditions and Police and Emergency Services. Currently our services are offered on the Larapinta Trail and the Australian Alps ( Victoria Only).
All other locations are pre-arranged.
In life-threatening or missing-person situations, we assist in activating 000 and the relevant Police or emergency services and then operate as a specialist support asset within the Australian Search and Rescue system, delivering specialised, rapid response UAV field teams for searches, remote FOBs, logistics and medical support.
For all life-threatening and emergency situations call 000
Specialised UAV SAR support for rapid deployment of drone teams carrying portable, modular and advanced UAV systems, capable of accessing and deploying in difficult, remote terrain, day or night and BVLOS. Service also provides a payload emergency resupply of up to 5kg.
Trail Search and Rescue (SAR) standby and rapid-response service for short-notice call-outs, deploying specialist UAV field teams equipped with advanced IR/thermal UAVs and operating alongside helicopters, ATVs and 4WDs, in support of Police and other emergency service–led search and rescue operations.
Baseline trail medical support (TMS) services that deliver first aid, preventative trail health care (PTHC), casualty monitoring, and trail evacuations. Advanced medical support provided by our partners Outdoor Wilderness Response
FIELD SKILLS TRAINING
Trail Rescue Australia delivers practical field-skills training for hikers, trekkers, rangers, tour guides, and first responders to reduce preventable incidents and improve outcomes when things go wrong. Our diverse range of courses, scenario training programs and knowledge community provides our students and participants with expert and real world training, knowledge and guidance developed over decades in trail SAR.
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HIKERS & TREKKERS
If you are planning to undertake multi day, extedned day or end to end hikes, particualry solo, we have excellent courses to build up your skills, confidence and capabilities. Courses have been based on lessons learnt supporting over 10,000 hikers on the Larapinta Trail and the Australian Alps Walking Track (AAWT) since 2016 through out partner trek support services at LTTS and AATS. The lessons learnt during this time is a book in its own right.
PARK RANGERS & TOUR GUIDES
As hiking increases in popularity, so does the pressue on Park Rangers and Tour Guides to ensure the experience of hikers and visitors is safe. Easier said than done! To make the job easier and more effective, we offer courses to upskill rangers and tour guides with location based and purpose specific training, that is relavnt, practical and actionable by staff on the ground. Department and company wide courses are also offered.
FIRST RESPONDERS
The unsung heros of all trail rescues, medivacs and retrievals, First Respnders, are often the first to be called out at any time within a 24/7 period under any conditions. We offer mission and capability specific specialised and advanced courses and training programs to sharpen the agility, adaptability and multi-skill capabilities of response teams to ensure their field skills, response systems, equipment and SOPs fucntion surgically, safely and effectively.
HIGH DEMAND COURSES
Our courses and training programs have been designed and are delivered by experienced professionals who are actively involved in trail rescue and field skills training. The foundation of all safety is prevention. Knowledge, skills and experience are the three pillars that our fused into our courses and delivered by experts.
Safety starts with prevention.
Start here.
TRAINING COURSES
Basic and advance in-person and online courses in emergency signalling, self-rescue techniques, wilderness survival and lost-self recovery. Very popular with hikers, Rangers and guides working in remote areas alone, in small teams or on tours.
SCENARIO TRAINING
Test and apply your rescue, emergency and survival skills, capabilities, knowledge and equipment in realistic-based scenario training in rough, remote and rugged terrain. Various levels of courses offered for solo hikers, groups and first responders.
KNOWLEDGE & COMMUNITY
Join our community and access how-to articles and videos, field notes, podcasts and live Q&As covering all things trail SAR - hiker safety and wellbeing; rescue; preventative medical care; gear and equipment selection; emergency signalling; survival and much more.
More information coming soon
FROM THE FIELD
Image: NW Kimberley Region - UAV narrow gorge recon - Lost expedition member
Image: Search for injured hiker on the Australian Alps Walking Track (AAWT), Mt Spec, VIC
Image: Hiker rescue on Section 5, Razorback Ridge, Larapinta Trail
Image: Night TI UAV paramedic support for hiker evacuation on the Larapinta Trail, NT
ABOUT US
Trail Rescue Australia (TRA) is a private company of field specialists with extensive experience in trail support, SAR, UAVs, emergency evacuations and specialised training in the NT, WA, FNQ, SA and VIC.
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The TRA team have hiked and worked on the Larapinta Trail, the Australian Alps Walking Track (AAWT) since 2004 and across remote areas of the Kimberley, Central Australia, the Australian Alps and Wet Tropics.
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We work closely with Outback Wilderness Response who provide all advanced
paramedic and medical care and evacuation needs.
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