Base Med WFR Student Finds Herself on a Mt. Rainier Rescue 10 days after graduation

Tens after graduating a Base Medical Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course in Portland, OR at the Mazamas Mountaineering Center, Carol found herself as the first on scene of a rescue on Mt. Rainier.

“I was not expecting that!” said Carol in an email to her Base Medical instructors. “I was volunteering on the Sunrise side at Mt Rainier hiking up to Mt Fremont. An SOS was received by Mt Rainier regarding an injured hiker.”

The Base Medical WFR course differs from other WFR programs because of the incorporation of Search and Rescue (SAR) concepts into the WFR curriculum. Wilderness medicine and Search and Rescue are not isolated disciplines. Rather, wilderness medicine is a discipline of SAR, and SAR is a discipline of wilderness medicine.