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Hey gang. I’m finally back on the blog train after three weeks of field time, guiding hikes in Zion and taking an intense 80-hour Wilderness First Responder course taught by the Wilderness Medicine Institute at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Boulder, Utah.
Both Zion and the “Woofer” course were grand, but together they formed a long string of 16-hour days, hence my skimpy blogging.
The Woofer seminar was nine days of full-tilt instruction – and very useful, even for an ex-EMT like myself who went into it with a smugly casual attitude. Above you’ll see footage from one short field exercise that required traction splinting a femur and backboarding two patients. We’ll post more First Aid videos in the future….and I’ll try to stay more current on the dispatches from here forward. Stay tuned. –Steve Howe