Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Spring Schedule is HERE
For a Printer Friendly version please click the link to the CCL website and choose Schedule from the links to the left. If you'd like a "perdy" color coded copy stop by the Swebop office and grab one off the bookself by the door. Happy Trails!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wilderness Medicine
Hello everyone! It's 4 a.m. and I'm tired of studying for mid-terms. Instead, I figured I'd check up on the blog and fill people in on past few exciting weekends. SWEBOP hasn't run any big trips in the past few weeks. We've been pretty busy with skiing, climbing, and training in wilderness medicine.
All of us SWEBOP instructors have to be certified in wilderness rescue and wilderness medicine; this training gives us the skill to rescue you from tricky situations and awesome life-skills we can brag about at parties. Examples: we can do stuff like traction a femur, treat a tooth-ache, survive lightning, and rig our own harnesses out of webbing.
This training is a.)long b.) potentially boring c.) kinda like playing Mcgiver d.) a great way to meet outdoorsy people from other schools. Virginia Commonwealth University instructors came up from Richmond to train with us last weekend. It's always a lot of fun to meet their new instructors, play with their nifty gear/toys and wander the campus. Adventures with VCU usually involve bush-waking across campus at 2 a.m.
Moral of the Story: SWEBOP takes risk-management seriously. We're trained to make smart choices and taught how to get ourselves out of tight spots if necessary. This is really convenient because the trouble we instructors get into is usually some situation we cooked up ourselves!
-Sarah
All of us SWEBOP instructors have to be certified in wilderness rescue and wilderness medicine; this training gives us the skill to rescue you from tricky situations and awesome life-skills we can brag about at parties. Examples: we can do stuff like traction a femur, treat a tooth-ache, survive lightning, and rig our own harnesses out of webbing.
This training is a.)long b.) potentially boring c.) kinda like playing Mcgiver d.) a great way to meet outdoorsy people from other schools. Virginia Commonwealth University instructors came up from Richmond to train with us last weekend. It's always a lot of fun to meet their new instructors, play with their nifty gear/toys and wander the campus. Adventures with VCU usually involve bush-waking across campus at 2 a.m.
Moral of the Story: SWEBOP takes risk-management seriously. We're trained to make smart choices and taught how to get ourselves out of tight spots if necessary. This is really convenient because the trouble we instructors get into is usually some situation we cooked up ourselves!
-Sarah
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