On Mount Bogong…
At just below 2000m, Mt Bogong is the best peak in Victoria. It looms over the small township of Mount Magnificence, not too removed from Falls Creek, and is a basic multiday journey for bushwalkers – who don’t thoughts over 1200 metres of vertical ascent – or in snow – for eager backcountry skiers.
Sitting inside what’s known as the “Bogong Distant and Pure Space” of the Alpine Nationwide Park, it’s a spot of nice pure magnificence, regardless of the season, and for the well-prepared adventurer, a spot of outstanding wildness and epic tales.
On this episode, skilled outdoorsy sort, Hilary, takes us alongside on her journey snow tenting and cross-country snowboarding, when her skis stopped shifting ahead… however her physique saved going.
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Key episode takeaways
- Significance of carrying a helmet snowboarding/snowboarding
- Adventuring with a bunch verus solo
- The significance of understanding handle environmental risks (eg. chilly) throughout first support emergencies, heat somebody up and hold them heat… and having the tools to take action.
- The worth of considerate planning and communication between these doing first support and the affected person
- The problem of lifting/carrying a affected person
- Hmmmm, fruit cake
- The trauma/stress skilled by first aiders – with the ability to take care of themselves too
- The facility of the inexperienced whistle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methoxyflurane
- The worth of leaving keys with the automotive
- Realising that AU’s Medicare doesn’t cowl ambulance or helicopter rescue. It’s totally different in every state so it is advisable to do the analysis in your scenario.
- Why having ambulance cowl is important
- Understanding what ‘again to regular’ can for outdoorsy folks vs ‘regular’ folks
- Understanding that wellness is a course of and being practical about what meaning and being variety to your self
- Accidents don’t simply have an effect on our bodily physique
Glossary
- Chook-footing = cross-country snowboarding (xc) or back-country
- Publish holing = once you step on what you assume is agency snow, however sink deep as much as the knee and even greater. Exhausting over distance.
- Yard sale = when a skier or snowboarder crashes arduous and all their gear goes in every single place. Skiis, poles, backpack. It seems to be like a yard (Aussie = storage) sale.
- AAWT = Australian Alps Strolling Observe
- DIN settings = is ready in your ski bindings based mostly in your snowboarding potential, weight, top, boot and situations. It’s the industry-adopted scale that permits your skis to launch your boot once you crash (good, inflicting a yard sale) versus not releasing your ski which might exert excessive strain and wonky angles in your physique (dangerous).
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Sponsor // Paddy Pallin
Rescued Podcast fundamental picture // Ben Cirulis and fotografija.com.au
