Survival 101: Experts Provide Five Essential Skills for Backcountry Safety

Survival 101: Experts Provide Five Essential Skills for Backcountry Safety

"There's nothing more tragic than going into the backcountry to do something epic and dying in the process. Knowledge is power" —Lafroy Stevens Lafroy Stevens' journey to becoming a wilderness EMT began with a rattlesnake. It happened in 2017 on Hidden Rocks Trail in Dayton, Va. That summer, Stevens—who works as a public school teacher […]

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