First aid is one of those essential training tools we would all love to have when adventuring in the outdoors, but if your like me, you don’t jump at the chance to sit in a classroom watching slide after slide of safety protocols as your ‘exciting weekend plans’. Enter Dave Wooldridge and the Ridge Wilderness team. They have made this often onerous task to essential safety training fun, engaging and unique in almost every way they can. Partners with the Red Cross, Dave and his team offer some of the best programs in the province in not only First Aid, but in the world of canoeing as well. This week, we’ll chat about what it took to build a successful outdoor business, crazy first aid response scenarios, owning Canada’s largest canoe and how we can all be better leaders in the outdoors by preparing ourselves to be our best selves through adventure companies like Ridge Wilderness. Be sure to check out all they have to offer you and your adventure companions at: www.ridgewilderness.com