Chapter 13

Question 1

What defines following someone or something by stringing together a continuous chain of their sign?

Answer 1

Tracking

Question 2

When are tracks easiest to see?

Answer 2

Sun is at low angles: early or late in the day

Question 3

What type of tracking involves the tracker seeing each step while proceeding no further than the last visible track and using stride to determine where to look for the next sign?

Answer 3

Step-by-step

Question 4

What 4things does tracking require?

What tool helps?

Answer 4

Sight, patience, perseverance, and determination.

Sign cutting stick

Question 5

What is looking for sign in order to establish a starting point?

Answer 5

Sign cutting

Question 6

Who does the step by step method consist of?

Answer 6

3 person team: one point person and 2 flankers

Question 7

Which place has the highest chance of containing sign and can be used to determine direction of travel?

Answer 7

Victims last known location

Question 8

What are the two types of signs and what is the difference between the two?

Answer 8

Conclusively human: can positively be said to be caused by a human and not an animal.

Corroborant sign: not decisively human, could be caused by an animal, which may help search efforts, but doesn’t help on its own.

Question 9

What form of tracking consists of finding an obvious footprint, and following the presumed direction of travel until another obvious sign is found?

Answer 9

Jump tracking

Question 10

What form of tracking uses a predetermined stride to skip one step in sequence in order to find the next, and then uses that one to find the one skipped?

Answer 10

Bracketing

Question 11

How do you use a tracking stick to measure stride/ find another track

Answer 11

40 inch stick with one rubber band at the end of the back foot’s heel, with the tip of the stick on the front foot’s heel. Then sweep the stick watching the are for the next track which the point of the stick will find.

Question 12

How do you label a track found?

Answer 12

Circle= full track with a hash lime indicating left or right.

Half circle: always at the heel even if you can’t see the heel, with a hash indicating left or right.

Question 13

What is the approximate stride of an individual?

Answer 13

18-20 inches

Question 14

What 5 things should you measure when you find a track?

Answer 14

Length of track, widest part of the sole and heel, length of the heel, stride (heel to heel),

Question 15

What 6 things should you describe in a track over the radio?

Answer 15

1: L and W of print and heel
2: number and type of lugs
3: shape of leading edge of heel
4: shape of toe
5: specific marks or patterns
6: specific ways of walking (trends)