Wilderness First Aid - CAMRA
Posted: Nov 13 2010 8:17 pm
I completed my first day at the Central Arizona Mountain Rescue Association Wilderness First aid Course. I passed both tests with flying colors. If you need any broken bones splinted, I'm your man. Tomorrow will be more difficult with the environmental concerns. Wilderness first aid is so much different than Urban first aid. I'm one of the few people that isn't CAMRA or law enforcement in the class.
This is a first step to my WFR. - Wilderness First Responder. This is a 16 hour course. That is a 40 hour course. I'm thinking I'm too old to go past that for my Wilderness EMT course. I would have preferred to be out hiking in the Supes, but these skills are so important.
I thought I had a basic "understanding" of first aid until my buddy got hurt and push came to shove. This is a real "hands on" experience. We split into groups and one group is the victims and the other is the responders. You don't know it until you do it.
The course is $155 for 16 hours of instruction and well worth every dollar. I learn so much more by doing and being evaluated than I do by reading.
Many of the people in the class are trying to qualify to get on CAMRA or on on the Maricopa County Sheriff Posse.
This is a first step to my WFR. - Wilderness First Responder. This is a 16 hour course. That is a 40 hour course. I'm thinking I'm too old to go past that for my Wilderness EMT course. I would have preferred to be out hiking in the Supes, but these skills are so important.
I thought I had a basic "understanding" of first aid until my buddy got hurt and push came to shove. This is a real "hands on" experience. We split into groups and one group is the victims and the other is the responders. You don't know it until you do it.
The course is $155 for 16 hours of instruction and well worth every dollar. I learn so much more by doing and being evaluated than I do by reading.
Many of the people in the class are trying to qualify to get on CAMRA or on on the Maricopa County Sheriff Posse.
I put on my gloves without appropriate context. Lots of other silly faux pas. More than learning by doing, this was learning by screwing up. I think you sort of had to be there. 
