This class is intended for everyone who participates in wilderness activities and wants to know what to do in an outdoor emergency. Volunteers and professionals who lead groups on short trips in relatively low-risk situations, where they are not far from help.

If you want to learn how to protect yourself from wilderness hazards and perform first aid outdoors, these courses are for you. We use vivid slides and an interactive teaching style to introduce the concepts, then train you to perform the skills and improvise care with whatever you carry for your outdoor trips.

Topics discussed in class include: patient assessment, hypothermia, frostbite, dressing for survival, going to high altitude, heat illness, water disinfection, wilderness nutrition and protecting your food, sunburn and sun protection, lightning, bugs, snakes and bears, hazardous plants, medical emergencies in the wilderness, wilderness wound care, bandaging (classic and improvised), bone and joint injuries, splinting (how to improvise), head and spine injuries (assessment and decision making), wilderness first aid kits.