WFA for Winter Backcountry Users
225 Harrison Ave.
Leadville, CO 80461
Course Info
This 2-day course is an introduction to wilderness medicine for winter backcountry users.
The WFA covers basic life support (CPR) as well as some traumatic injuries and environmental illnesses common with winter recreation.
Our Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is designed for the outdoor enthusiast, trip leader, raft guide, or land agency field staff who want more than what an urban first aid course provides. The WFA is a great introduction to wilderness medicine and basic life support skills. This training focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment of environmental illnesses, recognizing and stabilizing life threats caused by trauma, and calling for a rescue in the event of a wilderness emergency.
The 2-day (16-hour) Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course includes basic life support (CPR infant/child/adult & AED), Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training (WAT) and covers injuries and illnesses common when traveling or working in the backcountry.
Registration Information
This course is brought to you by Desert Mountain Medicine in partnership with Gore Range Gravity Alliance (GRGA). GRGA is a non-profit organization who mission is to bring women together to grow in their pursuits of outdoor adventure.
The Women's Wild Med Program (WWMP) through Desert Mountain Medicine welcomes all women and girls (transgender and cisgender) as well as non- binary people who identify with the women’s community to register. This WFA course is for all levels for women, taught by women. WWMP is about women empowering each other to go higher and further in the outdoors, while feeling safer and more confident. We aim to cultivate a supportive environment, positive experience, and provide confidence-inspiring skills to mitigate and treat medical emergencies in the backcountry. For more information about this event and Gore Range Gravity Alliance, please click here.
REGISTER ONLINE or for more information on this course please contact us at [email protected].
Custom Courses
Wilderness First Aid courses can be customized to your organization’s unique needs. Custom courses may include specialty topics and techniques, customized scheduling and course progression, field-based and backcountry classrooms, and uniquely specialized instructors, among other options. Organizations seeking a custom WFA must be able to provide a course venue.
Please email [email protected] for information about setting up a custom course for your organization.