Why Wilderness First Aid?
I was thinking this morning that it might seem kind of pointless for someone like me to have taken this course. Sure, I go to camp several times a year but it's not like we backpack out into the mountains or anything like that. I'm not a outdoorsman, I'm not going to spend a week camping in the backcountry.
To my mind the wilderness is anywhere you're away from people. If I'm hiking from the Cub Camp to the Scout camp and one of my kids takes a tumble I need to know what to do. By the time someone goes for help and gets back it will probably have been at least an hour. An hour of pain, bleeding, swelling or who knows what else. Someone needs to know what to do.
If my family and I are on one of our road trips and we hit a patch of ice on a back road I need to know what to do.
If Th'Boy and I are biking in a State Park and he flips himself over the handlebars I need to know what to do.
Accidents don't always happen in convienient locations with phones and first aid kits nearby. So why not learn how to keep everyone alive until help gets there? Or how to get them out if help isn't coming?
M.
To my mind the wilderness is anywhere you're away from people. If I'm hiking from the Cub Camp to the Scout camp and one of my kids takes a tumble I need to know what to do. By the time someone goes for help and gets back it will probably have been at least an hour. An hour of pain, bleeding, swelling or who knows what else. Someone needs to know what to do.
If my family and I are on one of our road trips and we hit a patch of ice on a back road I need to know what to do.
If Th'Boy and I are biking in a State Park and he flips himself over the handlebars I need to know what to do.
Accidents don't always happen in convienient locations with phones and first aid kits nearby. So why not learn how to keep everyone alive until help gets there? Or how to get them out if help isn't coming?
M.