Sharolyn Sievert, an engineering coordinator by trade, has been active in volunteer Search and Rescue since 2003. She was born in Tachikowa, Japan in an Air Force Base hospital on Mother's Day. Sharolyn's dad was an Eagle Scout and throughout his life, an avid outdoorsman and hunter. Because of her Dad's love of the outdoors, family outings were often spent hiking in the woods and vacations meant camping. Sharolyn's personal knowledge of outdoor survival, gleaned from a lifetime of experience, adds both to her skill as a SAR volunteer and to the accuracy of the SAR work presented in her book.