A helpful guide for parents who want to keep traveling, remain active in the outdoors, and get their kids interested in nature and the environment. Blends interactive parenting and coaching skills with outdoor sports, adventure, and travel. Taking children on camping trips or rafting trips can be a challenge, but by balancing safety and adventure, independence for older children, and family participation, everyone can have fun. A section on safety includes basic first aid and what to put in emergency kits.
That me, in the blue coat. If you read Mountain Rescue Doctor, you might remember the Coda in which I describe a midnight rescue mission in the middle of a blizzard on Oregon's Mount Hood. We're using the Mountain Locator Unit to search for a group of missing climbers.
So, yes, when my mountain rescue beeper goes off, the call may take me racing up a mountain peak to rescue an injured hiker, scaling a rocky ledge to intubate a hiker who has fallen over a cliff, into a blizzard to search for missing skiers, or to a mountain airplane crash scene for body recovery with my team, Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue group in the nation.
But, I also have a day job, one that pays money. I work as a author, consultant and physician in wilderness and travel medicine. In addition to clinic work, I've written for National Geographic Adventure and other magazines and I edit Wilderness Medicine magazine.
Check out more photos at www.docwild.net where you can also find links to my blog and facebook pages.
