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We’re bringing the Outdoor Medicine Collective to Ari’s hometown for the very first time, and we couldn’t be more excited to share this little corner of California with you! We may be a little biased, but we think Healdsburg is one of the most charming towns on the West Coast. It is also the hometown … Continued

Five years ago, I was sitting at my laptop in my tiny studio apartment, feeling a combination of excitement and complete overwhelm that comes with running your own business. I had recently decided to cut back on my shifts in the emergency department to devote more time to growing MedTreks. I had big dreams for … Continued

Meet some of the rad humans that make up our MedTreks team! Earlier this year, we gathered in Ashland, Oregon, for our Wilderness Medicine Instructor Course – five full days of teaching, practicing, learning, and running a whole lot of scenarios. One of our faculty members, Sarah Sarfaty, taught for five straight days. And then, … Continued

There is a moment we see over and over again during our wilderness medicine courses. Someone figures out how to stabilize an injury with a SAM splint. A group turns trekking poles and jackets into a functional patient carry. Someone looks at a tent—not as a shelter anymore—but as a piece of rescue equipment. And … Continued

This September is a pretty big month for MedTreks. Over the next few weeks, four different MedTreks groups and more than 60 medical professionals will be heading out on adventures around the world. And for the first time ever, I’ll be home for all of them. For anyone who knows me or has traveled with … Continued

The little moments you don’t always find in the guidebooks. I just spent three weeks scouting CME trips in Europe. I explored three very different destinations for future MedTreks adventures: Iceland, Slovenia, and the mountains surrounding Mont Blanc. Scouting a trip is one of my favorite parts of what I do. Of course, I’m looking … Continued

Watching UTMB in Chamonix The last few days of my European scouting trip were spent in Chamonix, France, watching some of the world’s best ultra runners take on UTMB.  If you’ve never heard of UTMB, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, every August, thousands of trail runners from around the world descend on Chamonix. Imagine the energy … Continued

For the past three weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to travel through Europe scouting new MedTreks trips. Life on the road felt a little different without a MedTreks group beside me. I had a little more time to observe, talk to people and wander on my own schedule. It made me think about some of … Continued

Roxanne Tenscher had spent much of her life in wild places before an injury in a remote part of Washington changed the direction of her work. Her rescue took three days and ultimately required a helicopter. Afterward, Roxanne became passionate about wilderness medicine training, and about giving other people the skills to respond when help … Continued