Cory Trepanier's, Into The Arctic Video Journals, brought to you in part by Eureka For Life Outdoors and by Merrell, Let's Get Outside.
Male Speaker: We are here in the May of 2006 at the Madawaska Kanu Center where the beautiful Madawaska river where Jane and I are here to take a four day Wilderness First Aid Training Course in preparation for our Into the Arctic project. Here we are far away from a lot of civilization and doctors and want to be as prepared as we can in the event that something might happen that we don't plan on. So we are heading up there for breakfast on morning one of our Wilderness First Aid Training Course.
The course was a mixture of in-class training and a lot of hands-on simulations as well. Those who attended came from various backgrounds; many were recertifying for somewhere employment as guides. Others were just like ourselves who were planning to get out further in the wilderness. We want to have a greater level of comfort with their knowledge of first aid. We learned an enormous amount of stuff which I hope to remember some of it while we are out there. This was a neat, little trick on how to carry somebody with a skinny piece of rope and it was a lot less painful than it looks, if you have got the rope set up properly.
Occasionally, there was time for a break and we went on and watched a few of the other having fun on the water. Madawaska is a great place for Canoeing and for training and we look to the back of the next spring for somersaults. The food was always a highlight of each day, three complete meals and snacks in between, all you can eat. It was really excellent, excellent food. We would work it out back in training, learning in this case how to put traction on a firebolt. I would recommend this course highly for anyone who is thinking of going outdoors for anyone.
Female Speaker: Of course, this is the best course I ever had.
Male Speaker: Really?
Team Members: Yeah, yeah.
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