Wilderness Skills Courses
Cooking for the outdoors

Tired of eating the same camp food on every trip?  Are you heading out on your first backpacking trip and not sure what you should pack for food?  In this hands-on seminar, Pack To Paddle instructors will guide you through the ins and outs of backcountry culinary creations.  From proper food handling, to proper nutrition, you will get tips on everything.  We will even go over different stove types, fuel types, and cookware.  You will come away with a few of our favorite recipes as well as the knowledge to use them in the field.

Duration: Half Day

Price: $59.99

Navigation

Don't stop and ask for directions again...well at least not in the woods.  Our staff will guide you through compass and map reading, how to find where you are, where you were and how to get where you want to go.   

Duration: Half Day

Price: $69.99

First Aid Courses
Wilderness First Aid

This is a practical based course designed for individuals who will be participating in outdoor activities within hours of medical assistance. This course will provide participants with an introduction to wilderness first aid. Basic topics are covered with an emphasis on practical skills, decision making and dealing with environmental conditions. Content includes: patient assessment, shock, wound management, burns, fractures and sprains, environmental injuries, common medical problems, first aid kits. The Wilderness First Aid course may be modified to accommodate CPR training and other elements of wilderness first aid, outdoor safety or leadership training.
Prerequisite: CPR

Duration:  16 Hours

Price: $229.99

Wilderness First Aid For Outdoor Leaders

This course has become a minimum standard for outdoor professionals, guides and instructors who work in a wilderness setting. Course content extends far beyond urban based first aid programs to include elements inherent in leading groups in the outdoors and guiding wilderness adventures. Special emphasis is placed on accident scene management, group leadership, leader responsibility and liability, prevention of injuries, advanced first aid kits, wound management and managing the trauma victim.
Prerequisite: CPR 

Duration:  40 Hours

Price: $429.99

Wilderness First Responder

An advanced program for outdoor professionals who work in remote settings, rescue personnel, and those requiring a solid foundation in wilderness prehospital emergency care. In addition to the material covered in the 40 hour program, special emphasis is placed on traumatic injuries, incident command, long term patient care, leader responsibility and liability, advanced medical aid kits, wound cleaning, evacuation procedures and working with Emergency Medical Services.

Duration:  80 Hours

Price: $829.99

Heart Saver Plus/AED (CPR)

Cardio-respiratory anatomy and function, introduction to CPR, early warning signs of a heart attack, Emergency Medical Services, management of a heart attack victim, CPR. Practical: CPR adult/child, obstructed airway maneuver; automated external defibrillator certification.

Duration:  4 Hours

Price: $59.99

 

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