Remembering the life and innovations of Coquitlam SAR volunteer Mike Coyle He was a husband, a father, software engineer, writer, innovator, and for approximately 27 years he helped lost hikers and injured mountain bikers get home safely as part of Coquitlam Search and Rescue. Michael Coyle died on Saturday after being found unresponsive while mountain biking in Squamish, according to a post from Coyle’s partner Sylvia Fuller. Fuller thanked the other mountain bikers and Squamish EMS for trying to save Coyle’s life. Local news that matters to you No one covers the Tri-Cities like we do. But we need your help to keep our community journalism sustainable. “Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog,” she wrote on social media. “We are shattered.” Having worked with Coyle for approximately 27 years, Coquitlam SAR president Nick Zupan described Coyle as selfless, hardworking, and a “solid dude.” “The way to describe Mike would be: solid, dependable, knowledgeable, able, competent,” he said. “He’s a team guy.” As a backcountry skier, climber, and mountain biker, Coyle had qualities that made him a natural fit for search and rescue. But it was that “love of the team” that kept him at it for decades. A software engineer by trade, Coyle wrote that his avocation is search and rescue, joining his first SAR team in 2000. “At the time I was frustrated with volunteering for various organizations and needed a simple way to feel useful, and to give back to society. SAR was that opportunity,” he wrote on his blog. Certified in longline helicopter rescue, Coyle and Zupan worked with North Shore Rescue to bring a helicopter team to Coquitlam. Coyle was emphatic that anyone in trouble deserved rescue, whether or not it was their own fault.