What items should you be carrying with you, and what do you need to know before venturing out into the backcountry in the first place? We're discussing these critical topics of backcountry travel and wilderness medicine with blister reviewer, AWLS instructor, and physician Paul Forward — and giving a status update on Jonathan Ellsworth, after his own backcountry accident this past summer.

TOPICS & TIMES

• Update on Jonathan’s status (3:24)
• What should people have, studied before venturing out into the backcountry? (8:56)
• Two-Way Radios (12:03)
• How to improve your radio signal in the backcountry (17:02)
• Minimizing interference with your beacon (17:44)
• DeLorme / Garmin In-Reach (21:58)
• Satellite Phones (26:29)
• First Aid Kit, and what Paul himself carries (28:37)
• How to evacuate someone / Creating a makeshift sled (39:24)
• Various Types of Wilderness Education Courses (46:06)
• The course Paul is teaching this coming February — AWLS + Heli-Skiing (51:38)

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