Sam Heigh is a Montana native with several years of leadership skills and serving on multifunctional teams. She has participated in several law enforcement trainings and events. She is trained in incident command, has dispatched and fought in major fires.

Sam is a certified dog handler and has worked with her dog Timber for over four years. Timber is a German Shepherd and is certified in cadaver, water, wilderness and level 2 trailing..

Sam is an experienced outdoors person with numerous years experience in man-tracking. She is also experienced in orienteering, GPS, navigation, four wheeler, snowmobile, rope rescue, rappelling, CPR, wilderness, first aid and managing the search incident.

In addition to High Country Search Dogs, Sam is a member of Elkhorn Search and Rescue