I am certified in Wilderness First Aid
I took Wilderness First Aid training this weekend with the Girl Scouts and the American Red Cross. It was a great time. We were at Camp Lyle McLeod on the Olympic peninsula.
There were nine students and two instructors. It was a great weekend.
All the students really welcomed me, which I worry about being the only guy to attend these training weekends (so far). I’m so excited to be helping the Girl Scouts, especially since it means spending more adventures with my daughter.
Wilderness First Aid is a little depressing. If you are way out in the back country, and help is a long way away, things can go wrong really fast. I feel lucky to have had the training experience I did. The instructors were excellent and the learning environment really helped make the scenerios we practiced all the more real.
I am planning to continue pursuing the outdoor classes, including canoeing, more advanced camping, and more advanced first aid. Who knows — I could go all the way to wilderness EMT. Only time will tell, but I’m jazzed at the thought.
I slept in one of those partial structures, floor, and half-walled tent with canvas sides and roof.
The second night, I had a fairy in my tent. I swear, I totally understand how people think they see them. I guess the mundanes could consider I saw a bat, but the critter flitted around in circles, faster than I could keep up. All I saw was this sparkling flutter flashing through the beam of my light. Whatever it was, I opened the canvas tent flaps on both ends of the tent, and it seems to have flown away. I guess it was a friend of Tadger’s. Tadger is the part tiger, part badger, part fey critter that lives out out at the camp.
Tadger has been known to visit some of the other Girl Scout camp sites in Western Washington, but I’ve yet to have a sighting. But then again, this was only my second over night and my second camp. There are four more camps to visit in our region.
Next I’ll spend the weekend at Camporee as the official First Aider. That will be a hoot!
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