Wilderness First Responder Class
(Wherein 23 intrepid students traveled to camp Chief Ouray to find first aid enlightenment)
What is WFR? 40 hours of frantic note taking and studying interspersed with 40 hours of adrenalin pumped sceanarios with screaming moulage coated patients. Gads, talk about stress! But now it's over, and we are all Woofers. In celebration, I present you with the WFR Best of Class:
Best WFR joke goes to Aaron Smock: How do you treat priapism? Traction... release... traction... release...
Best Acting: Multiple candidates, but my favorite was Margot Kniffin's rendition of "No, my head doesn't hurt, now where am I and where is my parrot Fluffy?"
Best Acting runner up: Erin Ryan's tear jerking rendition of "Never mind that I can't feel my legs, my friends are in trouble!"
Most overzealous WFR candidate: Myself- for cutting through 3 layers of Margot's polypro and fleece just to get a blood preasure reading.
Frequent flyer award goes to Anthony Fievez from Perth, Australia who stopped in for a few weeks of training enroute to Canada.
Best teaching skit goes to Mark Stivers in the role of Junior Junior- angina patient without a clue.
Best moulage goes to Brandon Schwartz for the absolutely hideous burn moulage.
First to earn a knickname: Scott "Chopper" Ritter- "Call in the helo, boys, we need an evac!"
Best IC- Marty Ferguson. Ok, so he was the only IC, but he was the immediate and unanimous choice for a good reason.
Party Animal award goes to Ishan Wijetilleke who arrived at 6:00am Friday morning after wandering about Snow Mountain Ranch most of the night.
Party Animal runner up goes to Lisa "Stickerhead" Foster and Mark "Tatoo You" McConnell.
Cruise Director award goes to Lisa Rutherfurd for organizing ultimate frisbee and vollyball after class.
Trivia award goes to Jay "Name that movie line" Chambers.
Got any more suggestions? Email me and I will add them to the list. Here is a link to the WMI Home page.
I meant to get some moulage photos and a group photos, but I was a bit busy... Here are a few aspen shots that I took on the day off. Click on the thumbnail for a 1024 x 768 JPEG file, suitable for desktop backgrounds.
Here's hoping every one remembers their training when they need to, but never needs to remember their training.
Cheers!
Mark.