Wilderness Medicine Intensive Skills Course & Whitewater Raft Adventure 2026

Wilderness Medicine Intensive Skills Course & Whitewater Raft Adventure 2026 is held in the beautiful, rugged Mt. Shasta/Marble Mountains Wilderness areas of Northern California.

Key Topics

• Outdoor Survival
  
  • Whitewater raft skills
  • Planning a Wilderness Survival Kit
  • Orienteering (including map/compass, GPS)
  • Wilderness survival (half-day course including improvised shelters, fire starting, signaling, useful knots)
  • Basic mountaineering skills
  • Swiftwater crossing techniques
  • Basic wilderness rescue techniques / evacuation / improvised litters
  • Route-finding
  • Splinting: improvised techniques for the backcountry
• Wilderness and Travel Medicine
  
  • Wilderness management of wounds / soft tissue injuries
  • Evaluation and Management of trauma in a wilderness setting
  • Hypothermia, frostbite, and other cold injuries
  • Patient assessment in wilderness
  • High altitude illness
  • Wilderness Orthopedics - fractures, dislocations, sprains
  • Wild animal attacks
  • Snakebite
  • Live patient scenarios and simulations
  • Avalanche safety and rescue
  • Lightning injuries and safety