Wilderness First Responder: What It's Like To Use It by Derek MacDonald
How a snowboard trip in July turned into a rescue mission.
Read on Substack
I didn't notice that Jen was in this photo at the time that it was taken. If I had, maybe things would’ve played out differently.
On July 2nd, 2017, I woke up at 4a.m. in my hammock. I packed up my sleeping bag and quietly tossed it into my already loaded 4Runner, doing my best not to wake up anyone else. A few friends and I had been camping in the Popo Agie Wilderness outside of Lander, Wyoming near the Wind River Range.
By 11a.m. I was putting on snowboard boots, roadside on Beartooth Pass, around 250 miles away and just shy of the Montana boarder...
onward.
-dmac