Slaydies All Women's Hybrid WFR, Durango, CO April 4-8, 2024

Women’s Wild Med Program Course Description:

This course is a part of Desert Mountain Medicine’s WWMP wilderness medicine program. This WFR course is hosted by Creeks to Peaks and the Durango Slaydies for women, taught by women. We welcome all women and girls (transgender and cisgender) as well as non- binary people who identify with the women’s community. WWMP is about women empowering each other to go higher and further in the outdoors, while feeling safer and more confident. We aim to cultivate a supportive environment, positive experience, and provide confidence-inspiring skills to mitigate and treat medical emergencies in the backcountry.

This is a Hybrid Wilderness First Responder course with 30 hours of self-paced, online work followed by 50 hours or 5 days in person learning. The online section is available on Canvas® approximately one month before the classroom section begins and consists of reading, case studies, videos, animations, and quizzes. The online material must be completed by the start date of the classroom section.  

Course Logistics:

This Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Course is held just 10 minutes from downtown Durango, CO on the beautiful Bar D Chuckwagon property. Class time will be held in the Wilderness Classroom, a large and comfortable commercial wall tent complete with a wood burning stove.