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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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    Future Trends in Outdoor Education

    As we turn the corner away from the 00’s or the “aughts” or whatever historians will choose to call the last decade, it’s worth taking a moment to look ahead toward future trends and issues that will affect things in the outdoor...
  • Outdoor Education General

    What is the Future of Outdoor Education?

    A recent report published in the Proceedings of the National Academey of Sciences entitled Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation by Oliver Pergams and Patricia Zaradic shows that after 50 years of steady increase...
  • Outdoor Education General

    Self Esteem and Mountaineering

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine , published by the Wilderness Medical Society , always has a number of very interesting articles of significance...
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Climbing as Therapy with Whitney Boland

In this video Whitney Boland talks about her life in Chattanooga, her relationship with a chronic disease...
Posted to: Climbing & Mountaineering
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How to sharpen and maintain your ice screws

Advice about how to sharpen and maintain your ice screws. http://www.petzl.com
Posted to: Climbing & Mountaineering
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Reinhold Messner Speaks at 2012 Winter Outdoor Retailer

Famed alpinist Reinhold Messner spoke at The American Alpine Club's reception at this year's (2012) WInter...
Posted to: Climbing & Mountaineering
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Yosemite HD

A spectacular journey through Yosemite National Park. This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill...
Posted to: Sustainability
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ICAR Consensus Guidelines on Mountain Emergency Medicine and Risk Reduction

All guidelines from IKAR MEDCOM and UIAA MEDCOM, Editor: Fidel Elsensohn, MD The book has been sold out...
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  • Vegetarian Chili

    Group Size: 10-12 Ingredients Vegetarian Chili: 3 boxes (all) Minute Rice: 1 box (all) Green Pepper: 1 Onion : 1 Canned Kidney Beans: 1 can (all) Canned Diced Tomatoes...
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  • Couscous

    Group Size: 10-12 Ingredients Couscous: 6 boxes (all) Pouch Chicken: 4 pouches Canned Corn: 1 can (all) Cheddar Cheese (as desired) Cholula Hot Sauce Dice cheese into...
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  • Pita Pizza

    Group Size: 10-12 Ingredients Pitas: 1-2 per person Pizza Sauce: 2 jars (all) Green Peppers: 2 Onions: 1 Pepperoni (as desired) Cheddar Cheese (as desired) Chop green...
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  • Fajitas

    Group Size: 10-12 Ingredients Tortillas: 1-2 per person Pouch Chicken: 8 pouches Green Peppers: 3 Onions: 1 Refried Beans: 1 box (all) Salsa: 1 jar (all) Cheddar Cheese...
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  • Backcountry Recipes

    Recipes for backcountry travel
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