DESERT RESCUE TECHNICIAN COURSE

Since 2019, we have instructed comprehensive wilderness emergency medicine courses in the White Sands Desert of New Mexico.

Our Desert Rescue Technician course is offered in the Fall and Winter annually. It is instructed by certified Wilderness First Responders and Wilderness Survival Instructors and is held near White Sands National Park in New Mexico. It is designed to incorporate practical survival, basic first aid, and technical emergency rescue skills for researchers that are involved in field work abroad and in the United States. Outdoor enthusiasts, instructors, wilderness leaders, and all ranges of wilderness experience backgrounds are encouraged to take the course. Classes will be taught in the field where camp is set up. The course will cover topographic planning, back country survival, orienteering, first aid planning, and technical emergency rescues. Follow the registration page link below to sign up for our next course.

Survive the Desert Night

  • Develop team safety skills for research fieldwork projects.

  • Learn how to set up camp in the extreme cold in a fire-ban zone.

  • Apply practical rescue skills instructed by certified Wilderness First Responders & Wilderness Survival Instructors.

  • Understand the technicality and responsibility of a first responder.

  • Become a certified Desert Rescue Technician alongside other aspiring researchers and students from around the country.

  • Adapt to a constantly changing desert environment.

Course Dates

Practical first responder skills taught in a harsh desert environment.

 

Course dates for 2025 pending, please check back later…