by Jacob Urban | Nov 18, 2023 | Enhance Your Backcountry
We often talk about the assumed or inherent risk of an activity. This is a relatively simple process of judging that can be done from the armchair or the bleachers without ever engaging in the activity. You will often hear folks share their opinions of what is risky...
by Jacob Urban | Sep 24, 2021 | Enhance Your Backcountry
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...
by Jacob Urban | Apr 1, 2020 | Enhance Your Backcountry, JHOLI
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...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 7, 2019 | JHOLI, Snowpack Update
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...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 1, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
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...
by Jacob Urban | Aug 19, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
“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...
by Jacob Urban | Jul 15, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
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...
by Jacob Urban | Jun 25, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
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...
by Jacob Urban | Jun 25, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
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. ...
by Jacob Urban | Apr 18, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
When I think of how to Do More I’m really thinking, how do I keep doing what I do? Having made a career in the out of doors, these are the questions I have asked myself over the years: How do I keep things fresh? How do I make this all sustainable? As a guide,...