Craig McClure
Craig McClure is a 15+ year Search and Rescue veteran in the Pacific Northwest and is the founder of The Crackerjack Group. Craig is a founding member and Level 3 Instructor with the International Technical Rescue Association (ITRA). He’s currently a SAR volunteer for Deschutes County Oregon, Rescue Leader of the MRA accredited mountain rescue team, an EMT, and specializes in technical and backcountry winter disciplines. He holds an AIARE Avalanche level 2 certification and is an expert backcountry skier. Equally comfortable in the field or command, he’s served as the coordinator for the Incident Management team and has participated in approximately 400 missions in his career reaching back to 2004 as a wilderness K9 handler. Craig is a frequent instructor for technical disciplines at SAR conferences, has served as an evaluator for MRA team accreditation, and was a logistics and safety officer and rigger for the first descents into the glacial caves of Mt. St. Helens. He has led and participated in high alpine glacial rescues, big wall vertical rescues, and complex extraction missions.
