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Va. said at first it was hard on his wife when he went off to training or sudden, dangerous rescues in a addition to the long hours of his career.
But last summer, he and others in SMRG — the unlikely acronym of this hardy group — were called to Shenandoah Park to search for a missing 10-year-old boy.
The youngster had been on a hike with his family to Dark Hollow Falls, an all down-hill hike, and as youngsters are wont to do, he ran ahead, getting separated from his family.
At first they looked for the lad themselves, but as night fell, they notified the U. S. States Forest Service Rangers, who quickly recognizing it would be massive search called in SMRG and other volunteers.
The day passed into night and the night into another day. George Swett — a veteran rescuer from Sperryville — and the others surmised the boy wandered off on “social trail.” That’s a short trail formed by people going to picnic that led nowhere.
As night fell, the boy — dressed in short pants — became more panicked, and stumbled through the forest into a patch of sharp nettles that tore at his legs.
He lost a shoe in a mud hole, and then lost or abandoned the other one. It was 30 hours before they found the boy — albeit frightened, but alive.
“From that time on,” says Vandenbosche, “my wife has been on
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