Fall Wilderness First Aid 2022
Date: November 5-6, 2022
Scouters and Scouts instructed Wilderness First Aid for the Mount Baker Council. Member from at least 4 different Councils attended. We share medical knowledge and experiences for a variety of topics and played a major role in teaching the Wilderness Survival Modules for this class. Attendees walked away with much more than a new credential, they are now better prepared to handle emergency medical situations in the wildernesses and survive the night armed with a knife, first-aid kit and their most important tool - thier mind.
Scouters and Scouts covered most the material for the First Aid and Wilderness Survival Merit Badges. Participants should be much better prepared to teach these subjects to scouts after spending the weekend with us.
The majority of the weekend was used to teach, practice and test advanced Wilderness Medical Skills to better prepare participants for the many medical emergencies they might encounter in the Wilderness and in life.
The gear talks included a talks about specialty gear, expedition level medical packs, shooting range kits, and basic kits that we can put together without spending a fortune.
Spindle and board and made from poplar
Hand hold is a rock with an indentation
Advanced Fire skills includes ways to start a fire with a Bic Lighter, Ferrorod, Bowdrill, Flint and Steel, Flint on Knife, and Shepard's Lighter. Tinders included dry cotton balls, treated cotton balls, fatwood, wood feathers, fibrous bark, Birch bark, punk wood, jute, sisal, grass, moss, char wood, char tins and char cloth.
The Gerberg comes with sharpend spine, blued blade and full tang
Ranger Bands used to secure accessories and for fire starting
Orange cord also doubles as a long burning tinder
Custom Sheath is a combination of leather and plastic
Advanced Bushcraft Knife Skills are one of the many skill sets taught in class. Participants where shown examples of Bushcraft Knives and basic Knife Mods. These knives were then used to process fuel by batoning and feathering. We also demonstrated stone on knife fire making and how to use a knife for friction fires.
Modded with sharpened spine, vinegar treatment and full Scandi resharpening
The HD version has a thicker blade than the regular Companion and the orange color makes it easier to find
This knife was literally beaten over and over again to split wood