If you page down to the previous post you’ll see that Tall Man Outfitters is hosting two wilderness medicine courses in Ohio this February.
Below are comments from Steelhead Alley Outfitters Head Guide, Patrick “Flybum” Robinson.
“In many states, in order to qualify for a guide license you have to show proof of First Aid/CPR training. Pennsylvania is one such state but in Ohio we don’t have a guide license program. Many of our guides carry the PA guide license but at Steelhead Alley Outfitters we require all our guides to have some kind of first aid training and certification.
I have personally taken the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) class through Wilderness Medical Associates (WMA) hosted by Tall Man Outfitters and found it to be bar none the best training of its kind I have ever taken.
WMA’s Wilderness First Aid is so much more than your standard first aid class…trust me it is worth your time and your money to get this certification! Once complete, you are certified for three years and prepared to deal with anything you would encounter in a wilderness context (which does not necessarily mean in the middle of nowhere, but could be a difficult location that could take some time to get your patient out of).
If Steelhead Alley Outfitters were to mandate specific training for our guides, this would be the training we would require.”
For more information on the upcoming classes, page down or go directly to the Tall Man Outfitters web page and follow the links for Wilderness Medical Training.
Be safe out there!
