“Broadreach has been partnering with Backcountry Medical Guides for several years. The first year, we brought BMG staff to North Carolina to host an in service training for our full time office staff. It’s incredibly important to us that our full time staff are all Wilderness First Responders to help answer questions to our clients, our staff in the field, and much more. Since that first class, which was such a success, we’ve gone on to partner in offering Wilderness First Responder certifications to all of our seasonal staff, which number in the 100+ each summer. Backcountry Medical Guides has been so responsive to our needs, flying around the world to teach classes and being incredibly flexible with their teaching space and methods. We, as an organization who cares deeply about the quality of our trainings, couldn’t be luckier to have forged our partnership with Backcountry Medical Guides. They hit the mark on professionalism, fun, quality of teaching, and accessibility.”

—Kate Farthing, Director, Broadreach


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“Big Sur Fire Department had the opportunity to take the Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professional (WUMP) course with Back Country Medical Guides in October 2018. We are all so blown away, grateful & satisfied with the exceptional quality of curriculum that was provided with this course. Personally, I felt that it provided the best quality of real, practical experience covering virtually every medical and trauma scenario that can be imagined or replicated in practice. The fact that we were in a field environment, practicing ‘hands on’ learning techniques while moving through assessments and treatment was hugely invaluable, and helped commit the course material to long term memory. Big thanks to John, Peter, Dan & Sean for the phenomenal & memorable learning experience.”

—Wendy W., WUMP 2018



“As a nonprofit organization conducting conservation work in the heavily visited Big Sur backcountry, we must equip our staff, contractors and volunteers with the skills to do their jobs safely and respond to medical situations ranging from basic first-aid to life-threatening emergencies. We rely on Backcountry Medical Guides to provide customized training based on real-time field experience in the very landscape we work to protect.”

—Mike Spaln, Executive Director, Ventana Wilderness Alliance