Description
This course is for you if:
- You are in a position of Leadership in a backcountry group (guide, teacher, trip leader, camp counsellor, event leader)
- You participate in high risk or high impact backcountry activities like mountain biking, rock climbing, backcountry skiing, remote paddling, snowmobiling, ATV riding, horseback riding, multi-day backcountry trips etc
- You generally seek adventure in backcountry settings that could require 24-48hr wait for rescue assistance
- You are motivated to progressively improve your first aid skill set
- You want to camp and learn at the same time!
Added content not in 20hr Course:
- Long term care of implements and possible removal of
- Helmet removals
- Discontinuing Spinal Precautions
- Realigning Fractures
- Managing more traumatic injuries to pelvis & femur, compound injuries
- Reducing Shoulder Dislocations
- Altitude Illnesses
- Pneumonia and other worsening medical illness in the backcountry
- Long term wound care strategies
- Added value: night scenario (Back40 added value!)
You will be certified in the Canadian Red Cross 40hr Wilderness First Aid inc CPR/AED –
- valid for 3 years
- meets Occupational Health & Safety requirements
Our Class is OUTDOORS!
We take great pride in using our outdoor classroom places to enhance the content of the Wilderness First Aid program. Every minute spent outdoors adds real life value to the content. All courses will have a back-up indoor option for when weather is unfavourable for the less active content. We will ALWAYS have outdoor components even if we are set up indoors for some of the content.
This course allows student to camp on site! Please be self sufficient with food/water/gear. Basic amenities like bathrooms and firewood are available on site.
WHAT TO BRING?
We also ask that each participant bring a “day pack” that would be similar to what you would carry on a day trip or work trip outdoors so that you can use items you would likely have with you. There is no wrong way to do anything when you are improvising.
- A detailed WHAT TO BRING list will be sent to course participants upon registration and closer to the course date.
- Some sport specific items are helpful in this course: PFD, Climbing tools like slings/webbing, hiking poles, etc.
- HELMET – All students are encouraged to bring any personal sport helmet they may have for their activities. This allows the class to practice a variety of helmet removal skills.
