Wilderness Medicine Certification & Boulder Stuff 15Dec19

Kala and I headed to Boulder for the weekend for class and fun with Wilkes, but we did miss an epic dump in Summit County... I got a number of pics of two feet of powder. We both attended the NOLS Wilderness Medicine class for backcountry 1st responders held at Chautauqua. The two days were packed with process and diagnostic info and rescue scenarios... it was really excellent, and we are now certified. There's no way to retain all the knowledge without some practice and while we don't want to encounter things to which we were exposed, we are going to have to practice and review somehow. So... be aware I can treat you if you need help, but you'll still need to carry me out.

Oh yea... unbeknownst till after, in our class was Eric Larsen, a highly decorated polar explorer from Boulder. On one exercise he was my scenario patient. Later, reading the latest issues of Outside, I recognized him from a double page ad for Ford and one for Citizen. I then looked him up and wow he's done some stuff. Sheesh.

While in Boulder we partied with our great friends Tom & Leslie Wilke. They took us to a keen new restaurant called Rosetta Hall. In the hall there are 8 mini-restaurants fashioning good food in styles from all around the world. There's also one nice central bar - it's work a stop. I had Korean chicken & cucumber salad and Kala tasted the French duck cassoulet.

Upon returning to COS, we did encounter snow as expected. Kala did the honors  of snow-blowing in the morning despite the frigid temps.