RMRG is regularly called to perform extractions for injured hikers, rock climbers, mountain bikers and skiers. Mountain rescue calls are widely variable in terms of location, difficulty of extraction and volunteer needs.

RMRG is a staffed by a team of 70 volunteers, not all of whom are needed at every call. The more seamlessly leaders can coordinate those volunteers, the smoother the team functions and the more effectively we use our volunteers' time.

Currently, RMRG uses a legacy system of digital and voice pagers to call out volunteers . We propose an app to coordinate mountain rescue response.

This app will be useful during several phases each mission. Prior to RMRG being called out, the app can be used by a member to declare themselves fully or marginally available for response during the day/workday/night. This information is critical as it tells mission leadership how many people are available to respond on a given day.

Once RMRG is paged for a 911 call and the mission starts up, the app would turn itself on and alert the member that we have been paged. The app would be able to handle multiple missions.

Once a mission has been paged out, members can indicate response and a mapping component would show the location of any members responding. With this, leadership will know not only how many people are responding but their approximate location and estimated time to arrive at the scene. One added bonus of the mapping component is that people can coordinate carpools.

Success for this app would be success in a beta-testing period followed by adoption and widespread use by RMRG leadership and members. This UR tech challenge could not have come at a better time since many members and leaders of the group have expressed interest in this functionality.