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  • Immersion Foot

    The view from my window is of the eastern slope of the Wind River Range. The high country gleams white with snow. The lower slopes are green with spring, or white with snow, depending on the day, or sometimes the hour. My hike last weekend was a combination of snowshoeing in wet snow and slopping through mud, conditions ripe for a non-freezing cold...
    Posted to Wilderness Medicine (Weblog) by Tod Schimelpfenig on 05-15-2008

  • Welcome to the Facilitator's corner

    I am thrilled to be part of the Outdoor Ed community blog-o-sphere. The intention is for this to be a place for facilitators to pop in and get some new ideas, points of view, activities, resources and whatever else the facilitators of this community need. As a trainer at High 5 Adventure , I am most familiar with issues in the realm of challenge courses...
    Posted to Facilitator's Corner (Weblog) by adventureortiz on 05-13-2008

  • Sea Bather’s Rash

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog From the month of May through September, oceangoers along the U.S. Gulf coast need to be concerned about a particular form of skin rash caused by tiny jellyfish. As the summer season progresses, this can also become a problem along the entire eastern seaboard. I've...
    Posted to Wilderness Medicine (Weblog) by Outdoor Ed on 05-04-2008


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