Do you work or play in the great outdoors? Are you prepared to respond to an accident or emergency that you might encounter? Whether you’re hiking, biking, climbing or involved with water sports, you owe it to yourself to have some level of outdoor medical training or wilderness training. Here are a few options offered...

  I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. As I've said before, the opportunity we have at Sierra Rescue to work in Yosemite National Park is amazing, and it is one of my favorite places to teach. This post gives a shout out to our SRT-1 / SRT-A students from this past spring. We set...

My last course for the fall was a great one. 7 students were in Coloma for some swiftwater action. We saw good water and awesome weather. UK native, Icelandic River Guide Mark Hirst joined us for the course and had some great additions and perspective for the river guides in the course. Plus, we found...

Learning to read water is much like learning to read. First you have to know your A,B,C's. Next, you start putting together sounds, and soon your first small words. Then come bigger words, sentences, phrases, paragraphs, and finally complete books. It takes time to become profiecint at reading water, just as it does in reading...

Ahh, the season begins!  Sierra Rescue started today with our first Swiftwater classes of the new year. Julie Munger, co-owner of Sierra Rescue, is teaching a Swiftwater Rescue Technician Unit 1 Class in Knights Ferry, CA.  Once the SRT is over on Wednesday, she'll follow it up with a Swiftwater Rescue Technician Advanced, also in...