Preventing the onset of seasickness, or coping with it once it rears its ugly head at you or others in your party, can be a matter of life and death. “A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Any paddler who has suffered the green-gilled demon of seasickness, with the […]
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Archive for First Aid
Honing our wilderness first-aid skills “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” William Shakespeare I took Spanish in eighth grade, because I needed the extra language credit. But I hardly spoke a word of it after that. I took a wilderness-medicine and first-aid course a couple years ago. I learned a lot, […]
Make your own kayaking first-aid kit, and learn how to use it “Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.” W.C. Fields A good first-aid kit perhaps falls into the same category as a rain jacket, an automobile spare tire, and an extra roll of TP; […]