• Hypothermia, frostbite and altitude illness
• Improvised immobilization and splinting techniques
• Backcountry evacuation/improvised carries and litters
• Patient assessment in wilderness setting
• Basic wilderness rescue
• Field management of wounds, fractures, dislocations, sprains, and other common problems.

• Wilderness survival (half-day course)
• Orienteering (including map/compass, GPS)
• Whitewater raft skills
• Swift-water crossing techniques
• Basic climbing skills including use of crampons, ice axe (including self-arrest)
• Route-finding 
• Avalanche safety and basic rescue.

Howard Donner, MD (Faculty Leader) – Telluride, Colorado; NASA Consultant; expedition physician – Kangchenjunga (28,000 feet.); Himalayan Rescue Assn. Physician; Operation Everest II; featured on several NOVA TV documentaries; coauthor of A Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Howard Donner is renowned as one of the world's most experienced expedition physicians. He is a also a highly acclaimed speaker on Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Donner's extensive experience in wilderness and expedition medicine includes:

 • Three climbing seasons he spent as a rescue doctor on Mt. McKinley in Alaska for the National Park Service at the 14,000 foot medical / rescue station.

• Numerous medical projects in the Himalayas including two seasons as a staff physician for the Himalayan Rescue Association.

• Expedition physician for the first American ascent of Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest peak (28,000 feet).

• Olympic physician for the United States White Water Team in Atlanta in 1996.

• Dr. Donner's extraordinary background in expedition medicine was the basis for 5 years of service as a medical operations consultant for NASA, where he was involved in the design of the Shuttle and International Space Station medical systems.

• Co-author of The Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine (3rd edition was published in August of 2008).

Other Wilderness Medicine Faculty include:

Kyle Allred – (nickname “Rowdy”) Professional International Guide (Africa, Europe, South America). Participant in finals of US National Whitewater Raft Championships (2003). Co – owner Adventure Whitewater (raft guide service).

Practical Wilderness Medical Skills Covered:

• Patient assessment in wilderness

• Hypothermia, frostbite, and other cold injuries

• Wilderness management of wounds / soft tissue injuries

• Fractures, dislocations, sprains

• Splinting: improvised techniques for the backcountry

• Basic wilderness rescue / evacuation/improvised litters

• High altitude illness

• Snakebite / arthropod envenomations / animal attacks

• Live patient scenarios and simulations

Wilderness and Outdoor Survival Course Includes:

- Wilderness survival (half-day course)

- Orienteering (including map/compass, GPS)

- Whitewater raft skills

- Swiftwater crossing techniques

- Basic mountaineering skills

- Route-finding

- Avalanche safety and basic rescue