Follow Your Heart…Just, Follow Your Heart
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. - Henry Winkler Life is hard. Beautifully hard. It is supposed to be. Full of the...
Getting Back Up; Over and Over and Over Again.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton I think of it as falling down and getting back up; over and over and over again. For me, the trick is realizing we don’t...
We Consume More Than Food – Your Subconscious and Media are Directly Related
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. - Pete Seeger I consume no news media. Nothing for the last 3 to 4 years. When I get asked “How do you stay current?”, I...
The Pathogen Puzzle: A Well Supported Immune System is the Missing Piece to Attaining Health
I have been a professional educator for 30 years. Over the last 25, I have studied the body through the personal practice of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. During that time I practiced both urban and wilderness protocols in several different mediums ranging from...
Snowpack Update – December 7, 2019 – East Breccia / Togwotee Pass Area
Today we went back out to the Togwotee Pass area in an effort to trend the characteristics of the facet layer that was created during and extended window of high pressure in November. While we expected to get lower test scores than last week, we had no expectations...
Snowpack Update – Nov. 30, 2019 – Togwotee – East Breccia
Understanding What's Under Our Skis & How to Manage the Risks Associated With It As hard as it may be to believe, ski season in the backcountry is not really here yet. What I mean, is while the snow is piling up in the backcountry the early season hazards...
How do you make Magic?
There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal. Karyn Kusama My travel in the mountains mimics my life...
Patient Packaging in the Wilderness Environment
Patient care techniques can have many different outcomes in regards to training, experience and applications used by the provider. In the wilderness environment this is seen during the transfer of care between, recreationalists to guides and guides to organized Search...
Helmets?
You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone. Jon Gruden You can wear one or not. Although the jury is in. Helmets help reduce...
A Closer Look at Head Injuries
When individuals with head injuries develop swelling on the brain ? it is referred to as intracranial pressure (ICP). ICP provides two life threatening problems. It reduces oxygen permeation to the cells of the brain and it inhibits the function of the brain stem. ...