Akron Wilderness Medicine Club

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Mattingly and Pemba Sherpa on a successful summit of Mt. Everest!! Also, Ben has summited all 7 summits!! Ben Mattingly and his wife Jenni Bond Mattingly are the founders of Wild Med Adventures. Prayers for a safe return home!! 🏔️🎉🎊🍾

Ben & Pemba successfully summited Mt. Everest @ 5:10 am on May 17th!!! 👏🏻🎉💪🏻❤️

Ben has now summited the highest mountain on all 7 continents!!! Congratulations!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Pics coming soon!

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AI hike mushroom hunting with 4th Year medical students is always great fun!

First camping trip with our Wilderness Medicine residency track. Cook Forest, PA is amazing. Great people, great time!

Dr. Watkins discussing Global Health during our WM residency track meeting. Stay tuned for more interesting activities with our wilderness medicine club in 2022!

Last AI wilderness hike of the year. Frostbite and mushroom toxicology talks while hiking in beautiful CVNP.

“A fed bear is a dead bear”

Got two months now, we’ve been hiking through CVNP foraging for mushrooms and discussing mushroom toxicity with outstanding 4th year medical students interested in emergency medicine. Here are two groups of future EM docs. Hopefully some of them will be working with us next year!

Hiking CVNP with Full On CVNP 🥾🏃‍♂️👍

Hey everyone!! Look into Full On CVNP to explore the trails of our very own national park. There are 24 designated trails for this event and you would need to finish by April 30th to get the badge. Small entry fee that goes toward our wonderful park.

Happy National Hiking Day!! I hope you had an opportunity to enjoy one of our many trails around north Ohio today.

I'm also happy to announce that I'm in the process of developing a website with the theme of exploring our very own national park- CVNP. We are blessed to have a such a beautiful national park so close. I'll be describing various trails within the park and interviewing rangers, historians, etc. who know our park intimately. Stay tuned!

Our first CCAG Wilderness Club meeting brought great people together and ideas for future adventures! Had a blast!