Wilderness First Aid Spring 2024
Date: March 5-7, 2024
Multiple members of Troop 60 supported our council's Wilderness First Aid course. So of our staff arrived Friday evening to set up the class while the rest of the instructors and participants showed up Saturday morning. We did about 9 hours of training on Saturday before having dinner than then moving on to the optional Wilderness Survival Class. Our Wilderness Survival Course included a Fire Class taught by a Green Beret.
Sunday included some of the more difficult classes and a LOT of hands on practicing and emergency scenarios. The Scenarios are where participants and instructors put their knowledge and new skills to the test.
It was another really fun and rewarding course.
Wilderness Survival Class
Demo Setup from Right to Left:
display bowdrill/wrapped bowdrill, punk-wood, flint/steel/carbon-knife/chartin, wood/hat/shavings, ferrord/knife/fatwood
Tinders in tins and boxes: grass, moss, jute, thin wood shavings, charred punk, charred cotton
This is why we don't blow into the wind
Day 2
Classroom Setup
Demo Setup from Right to Left:
1) display bowdrill/wrapped bowdrill
2) punk-wood
3) flint/steel/carbon-knife/chartin
4) wood/hat/shavings
5) ferrord/knife/fatwood
Tinders in tins and boxes: grass, moss, jute, thin wood shavings, charred punk, charred cotton
Far left - fire stand to dump burning demos
Far right (show shown) readied bird's nests - moss and grass (jute left in tin)
On Blanket - immediate use tins, extra blanket for fire or kneeling, spare Mora/Swiss Army knife/ferrod/fatwood
Behind - drill sets, box of spares, char tins, flint and steel, boxes of tinder