First Aid

Sit. Rep. #137: Priority Purchasing-I, Altitude

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1- Hiking is hard on your feet compared to an average school or work day.  You will usually cover many more miles through rougher terrain.  If you are backpacking; then your feet and legs are carrying more weight than normal.  I coach beginning backpackers to concentrate their first purchases on shoes and socks.  Ask your … Read more

Sit. Rep. #135: Efficacy, Murphy, Heat Index

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1- Your body uses and looses water every moment of your life.  Our bodies loose water thru breathing, sweating, urinating, and defecating.  Also through blood loss and female menstrual cycles.  Not to mention injuries.  Heat and cold exposure, high altitude, flying, burns, illness and increased activity cause your body to need more water than normal. … Read more

Sit. Rep. #126: The Dark Side, If – again

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1- Scouting:  Ask every Scouter you know what their life would be like without Scouts?  What did they learn & how did they use that knowledge or skills from Scouts?  What would they have done differently in Scouts?  What kind of Leadership roles were learned in Scouts?  What kind of Service Projects did those Scouts … Read more

Sit. Rep. #125: Sort Colors, Stuffed Training, Simple things

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1- The current thinking in current medical/responder triage for mass casualty incidents (MCI) is to use 5 colors.  You do not have to have an MCI to use this coding / tagging system.  You can express to the 911 operator that you have X of Y color; that will help the responders.  IE: I have … Read more

Sit. Rep. #104: String, Food, and Circulation

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1- Nutrition in cold weather and in hot weather help your body cope with outdoor temperatures.  Let us look at the winter conditions.  Cold weather, medically speaking, starts at about 50 deg. F ( 10 deg. C ).  In cold weather you body starts retreating your blood circulation to the inner workings of your body.  … Read more

Sit. Rep. #91: Chips, Weaving, & Kits

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1- I carry an Emery Board in my shaving kit when I go camping.  These can take care of cracked toe or finger nails, calluses, and can even be a back up match striker. 2- Many companies have intern programs.  Some pay, some do not.  Some schools give class credit for internships.  (I just found … Read more

Sit. Rep. #90: Itchy Itchy, Scratchy Scratchy

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1-This song is titled “The Happy Wanderer” by Florenz Friedrich Sigismund.  First verse: I love to go a-wandering, Along the mountain track, And as I go, I love to sing, My knapsack on my back. 1B- Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “The Way Through The Woods.”  Here is the second verse. Yet, if you enter … Read more

Sit. Rep. #79: Kipling and Patton

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1- Batteries die even when fully charged because of 2 reasons.  Extreme cold stops the chemical reaction from taking place that produces electricity.  Or heat that corrodes the internal parts.     On cold weather camping trips, keep your batteries in your tent overnight to keep them from freezing.  During the day, place your batteries or … Read more

Sit. Rep. #74: Electromagnetic radiation.

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1- Light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Also called electromagnetic radiation.  In Ham Radio we call it RF – short for Radio Frequency.  The electromagnetic spectrum is broadly divided into 7 different parts depending on the wavelength of the radiation.   Remember that the frequency and the wave length are directly but inversely related.   So … Read more