The Wilderness Medical Readiness Guide

Evidence-based trauma care for when help is hours away.

In town, an ambulance arrives in minutes. On the trail, it can be hours, and the first person who can help is you. This 28-page guide teaches the same priority order professional medics use (MARCH), shows how to build a personal, group, or expedition kit, and gives you printable checklists, a monitoring log, and a rescue report card to carry in your pack.

What's inside

• MARCH in the backcountry: what kills first, and what you fix first
• Bleeding control: tourniquet placement done right, wound packing, and self-application
• Airway, chest injuries, shock, and head injury
• Cold, heat, altitude, lightning, and water
• Kits in three tiers with live pricing, plus an expiry log
• Training ladder, evacuation decision tree, and a 30-day readiness plan