Best WFR courses in the area
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I am a student in Albany, and my mother was asking me this year what I would like for Christmas. I am reasonably set up for most of the pursuits I enjoy, and thought I'd come up with a creative gift idea(safety is always a biiig selling point with the mother unit.) |
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ADK is offering WFA this weekend at the Loj: |
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Just noticed you were looking for WFR, looks like they're offering that on 4/6/13 --> 4/13/13 Mike V. wrote:ADK is offering WFA this weekend at the Loj: adk.org/page.php?pname=work… Wilderness First Aid Dec. 1-2, 2012; March 23-24, 2013 This intense course with Wilderness Medical Associates teaches students how to deal with medical emergencies when they are miles from help. The classes offer hands-on scenarios and lecture structure, through which students will learn to assess patients and become certified in wilderness first aid, CPR, and anaphylaxis training. Class time will be spent both inside and out. Location: Heart Lake Program Center Cost: $240, includes instruction and materials. Package: $325, includes instruction, materials, meals, and lodging for 2 nights. You're probably looking at ~2 hours from Albany to the Loj. Mike |
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Anyone have any experience with an ADK course? Seems like a good price, and it would give me CPR certification, WFR cert, anaphylaxis certification too. Maybe this is par for the course with WFR courses, but this would be nice as I could set up a luxo camp at South Meadows for the whole time and just walk up the road to the Loj each day, cutting back on the lodging cost and food cost. |
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Just kidding: it's provided at the heart lake program center, so I guess that's not an option, but I could camp close-by probably and drive the short distance into town. |
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I have my WFA through Wilderness Medical - did the weekend course at the Loj a few years back. Both the instructors and the curriculum met my expectation, and I left after a weekend feeling like I learned information that would be useful in my outdoor exploits. The course gave me an understanding for how I could help in the case of an emergency, and how I could best prep/evacuate when the situation was more than my protocols could handle. |
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Ben Brotelho wrote:Just kidding: it's provided at the heart lake program center, so I guess that's not an option, but I could camp close-by probably and drive the short distance into town.Half mile walk from South Meadows to Heart Lake (Adirondac Loj). Not so fun in the winter, perfectly enjoyable in the summer. The campground at Heart Lake would be the medium priced option (better deal if you are an ADK member). |
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Wait...I'm an idiot the LOJ is the heart lake program center. Haha |
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chris_vultaggio: Definitely considering the one at through the LOJ. As far as I can the WMA certification is as good as any, right? |
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Check out the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS. I haven't looked at dates near your location but I highly recommend them. I recently got my WFA for the second time with them and I took the NOLS Rocky Mountain Outdoor Educator course in September 2011. I liked it enough that I'm going back for another course in June so I speak from personal experience that the people of NOLS and the WMI really are great instructors. |
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WFR and WFA are two different certifications, WFA can be used to recert WFR (be prepared for a final PA to be geared toward WFR even though all material is not covered in the WFA two day course). Also you might want to double check the whole epinephrine thing. |
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Do wfa. Unless you need the card the courses really aren't all that different. And yeah... +1 to check the epi thing. |
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anaphylaxis certification is included in the program, is that what you mean by checking the epinephrine thing? |
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Take the money - being a student you may be able to find a summer job that would pay fully or partially for your WFR cert. |
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+1 re: finding a job to pay for it. I worked for a summer camp and randomly asked if they would pay for it if I chose to pursue additional medical training. They obliged to cover 1/2 of it-which is way better than none at all. |
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I doubt i'll find any legal employers to pay for a wfr course...its purely for personal safety and peace of mind for me and my buddies I climb/ backpack with. |
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As a W-EMT and graduate of the program at SOLO and highly highly recommend it. I lived on the SOLO campus for a month to get my W-EMT and can't say enough about the experience. The instructors are amazing, the class is full of fascinating lectures and hands-on scenarios. The wilderness medicine world in the US has 3 major players WMI (NOLS), WMA, and SOLO. WMI & WMA work mostly on the west coast and SOLO works on east coast. All three organizations talk with each other and ensure that their certifications and curricula match up. |
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^^^This. |
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Check the WMA site. There's a WFR in NY at the end of December and mid January. Both a couple hours from Albany. |
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I imagine I am one of the few people who has taken courses with both SOLO and WMA, I thought I'd chime in with a few endorsements of points previously made, some pushbacks of others, and some new points. |
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If you have the time +1 for getting your wemt through solo. Wfr gives you a very very narrow perspective on medicine where the wemt will give you the knowledge you need to make decisions in the backcountry. |