<<First Name>>,
A few timely items have come through my email; please forgive yet another email from me this month.
Regards,
Matthew Lettington
President
Intro to Winter Travel for Snowshoers
Date: February 8 & 9 --two full days with a certified guide
Regular Price: 389 +tax (IMR members recieve a 10% discount)
Education Rebate from the Island Mountain Ramblers for qualifying members of $50 - $100
Last chance to register, contact Island Alpine Guides immediately
Taught by the Island Alpine Guides, this introductory course is designed to provide an experience of travel and camping in a winter mountain environment. It’s for anyone who has an interest in exploring the mountains in winter and in learning the skills needed to do so safely and enjoyably.
- Topics covered in the course include:
- Snow travel
- Route finding
- Use of map and compass
- Uphill track setting
- Downhill route choice and techniques
- Avalanche awareness
- Winter camping
- Improvised snow shelter
- Winter camp craft
Do You Have 15 Minutes to Share Your Thoughts on BC’s Remaining Old-Growth Forest?
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The BC Ministry of Forests wants our recommendations about new rules to govern the management of BC’s old-growth forests, with a deadline of 4pm on Friday January 31st. They are inviting us to complete a Questionnaire.
Conservation North has written a useful 4-page guidance sheet with suggestions for completing it, which you can find here.
BC’s old growth forests have been managed abysmally. The focus on seeing the forest simply as a source of fibre is highly detrimental, and has reduced the remaining old growth to a level that poses a high risk to wildlife, forest resilience, and ecological integrity.
The protection of our old growth forests requires:
1. Legislated protection of the remaining old growth. Start with a moratorium on harvesting in the most endangered forests, including the remaining productive, accessible stands. Follow this up with a science-based plan for the protection of all remaining primary forests.
2. A just transition away from the industrial harvesting for fibre and towards community-based forestry and secondary manufacturing focused on the second-growth forests, enabling a rapid transition to a sustainable economy. Transitioning the public forests to community control will help the change, and it will serve human communities, forests and wildlife better than the existing tenure system.
Follow these three easy steps to submit your feedback in ten minutes:
1. Click here for the online questionnaire.
2. Click here for suggestions on how to complete it.
3. Fill out the online questionnaire
best wishes from all of us,
Yellow Point Ecological Society
250-924-1445
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Wilderness First Aid, and Advanced Wilderness First Aid Upgrade
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WFA - 20 Hour Certificate
Event Date: 02/15/2020 - 02/16/2020
Location: Nanaimo
Register through Ridge Wilderness Adventures
Membership Rebate Information Here:
This is course is not exclusive to the Island Mountain Ramblers, but for qualifying members, we will subsidize the course between $50 and $100.
Wilderness First Aid is a 20-hour course taught over 2 days. It is designed to help you deal with an injured or ill person for up to 24 hrs. Because of the nature of the problems you may be dealing with in the outdoors, at least 50% of the course is taught outside. This course has the Standard First Aid and CPR C with AED built into the course. This means that upon successful completion of the
course, you will have your Standard First Aid and CPR C certificates built into your Wilderness First Aid certificate.
In addition to the course content, we include basic shelter construction that is not part of the certificate. We include this because of the nature of the environment that you will be working on and the relevance to the course content.
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AWFA - 40 Hour Certificate (upgrade)
Event Date: 02/22/2020 - 02/23/2020
Location : Nanaimo
Register through Ridge Wilderness Adventures
Membership Rebate Information Here:
This is course is not exclusive to the Island Mountain Ramblers, but for qualifying members, we will subsidize the course between $50 and $100.
Register through Ridge Wilderness Adventures, here:
https://www.ridgefirstaid.com/shopping/products/wilderness-first-aid
(be sure to select Nanaimo and the right date)
Membership Rebate info here:
http://islandmountainramblers.com/join-the-island-mountain-ramblers-2/education-rebate-2017/
This course is designed to prepare you to deal with someone for more than 24 hours. We teach a minimum of 75% of the course outside to create a realistic learning environment. This course has the Standard First Aid and CPR C with AED built into the course. Upon successful completion, you will have these certificates built into your Advanced Wilderness First Aid certificate. Like the
WFA course, we add basic shelter construction that is not part of the
certificate.
Please note: the prerequisite for this program is the Wilderness First Aid certificate, which must be successfully obtained 1 year or less from the upgrade course date.
This course qualifies for an UPGRADE from the basic WFA course, as well as a RECERTIFICATION for your current AWFA Certificate.
COURSE CONTENT: Additional to the content listed in the Basic Wilderness First Aid Course
Triage
Advanced Communication Techniques
Leadership
Group Dynamics
Extended Care
Discontinuing Spinal Precautions
Aligning Fractures
Relocating Dislocations
Field Sterilization Techniques
Multiple Injury Protocols
Advanced Field Splint Techniques
Patient Transportation
Jaw Thrust
Altitude Injuries
Advanced Scenarios
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Executive Search 2020
With 2020 looming I'm sure you're all consumed with the upcoming election. Who will lead us into the future, what new boundaries will be pushed and great things will this person bring into the mix. No, I'm not talking about the US election, I'm referring to the Island Mountain Ramblers election for President, and Vice-President.
Become part of the executive and help make decisions that give direction for the members. If you are interested in knowing more about leading the club or have a great suggestion of who could be nominated, please contact me with this vital information.
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Report the names of trip participants and/or a trip report for our blog,
Timberline Tales!
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