Spiritus Training

03/30/2023

Tree well rescue in the Mt. Baker side country. I was skiing a zone with a partner when I passed by a snowboarder upsidedown and buried in a tree well. I onl...

08/02/2021

Great skill to have taught by a great guy!

07/06/2021

Pretty good list. Can tweak a few things like the wilderness first aid kit.

All the camp essentials plus a few extras to make your campsite extra sweet.

06/26/2021

Very sorry to hear of his passing. His contribution to Wilderness Medicine was quite significant.

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share that WMS Co-Founder and Past President Dr. Paul Auerbach lost his battle with brain cancer earlier this week. His family shared that "he fought until the end but left the world surrounded by family and without pain."

Paul, known by man as the father of wilderness medicine, held countless leadership positions within the organization and authored hundreds of publications. Most notably, he was the editor of the textbook Wilderness Medicine, which is now in its 7th edition, he established and was the first editor in chief of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal, and he co-authored both Enviromedics and Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine. He was a first responder during the earthquakes in Haiti (2010) and Nepal (2015) and helped establish the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital (WSMH) Fund, as well as the wilderness medicine fellowship program at Stanford.

Paul was a dear friend, colleague and mentor to so many and he never hesitated to go out of his way to help anyone in need. He lived a rich life full of service and adventure, truly the epitome of the WMS tagline "combining your profession with your passion."

To commemorate Paul's profound impact on the WMS and the field of wilderness medicine, the WMS Board of Directors recently established an annual summer lectureship in his honor. The Paul Auerbach Lectureship will seek to invite expert speakers on topics whose work complements the vision of the WMS, to be thought provoking, innovative, and to nurture the breadth of the WMS. Friends and colleagues Peter Hackett and Brownie Schoene will work with the conference planning committee to identify appropriate speakers with the first inaugural Auerbach Lecture to be held tentatively in the summer of 2022. With the support of his family, the WMS will be collecting donations for the Paul Auerbach Lectureship Fund.

Donations may be made in his honor here:
wms.org/auerbachlectureship/

Donations may also be made to the Wongchhu Sherpa Memorial Hospital in Paul's name.

We invite you to post memories and photos of Paul below for a slideshow that we are compiling.

With gratitude for all the lives touched by Paul Auerbach, Founder, leader and dear friend of the WMS,
-WMS Board of Directors

Bottom right photo cred: Chuck Liddy

12/28/2019

"The expert halo"; interesting cautionary story.

Thousands of people flock to the Alps each year to ski tour high-elevation routes, spending comfortable nights in a string of huts that serve wine and hot meals. This spring, a group of experienced skiers and their guide were trapped in a storm overnight on an exposed saddle. By morning, nearly all....

11/21/2019

As the weather gets chillier, this article is a great refresher.

06/27/2018

http://cannabisandpsychosis.ca/
Legalization of Cannabis is coming soon - keep yourself informed of potential effects.

Explore the Link is a project of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada. The aim of the project is to increase awareness and understanding of the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis.