Wilderness First Responder graduate Carmine Leighton illustrated each day of a WFR course in cartoons!
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Learn more about taking a WFR course with NOLS.
Oct 28, 2015
Wilderness First Responder graduate Carmine Leighton illustrated each day of a WFR course in cartoons!
Learn more about taking a WFR course with NOLS.
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I entered the Wilderness First Responder course nervous.
It was January, four months prior to my first season as a rafting guide on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon for AzRA Discovery. The WFR certification through NOLS Wilderness Medicine would grant me the final two certifications I needed.
I was nervous for a couple reasons: First, my medical knowledge was limited to watching Grey's Anatomy on TV prior to the course; second, I was unsure how I would be triggered or invalidated in my Queer identity through the nine-day course.