The Setting On a recent trip to the great state of Colorado, I had the opportunity to get outside every day in pretty spectacular settings. Walking, running, hiking and skiing (and occasionally falling on my ass) in the slightly less oxygenated mountains of CO proved to be exactly what this doctor ordered. Superlatives came in the hundreds…
Emergency Medicine residency training, an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and years of practicing medicine in Africa prior to the fall of 2014 prepared long-time Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) member Dr. Craig Spencer, to be part of the international emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014. While we watched the epidemic…
Outdoor Life in SoCal For the outdoor enthusiast, San Diego is arguably the greatest city in the U.S. Within San Diego County, you can hike up trails taking you above 5,000 ft elevation requiring snowshoes, and in the same day, take a sunset stand-up-paddleboard (SUP) or kayak in fairly temperate Pacific waters, finishing up with some fantastic grub fit…
Ocean breeze, 80’s and sunny, dogs playing in the surf, life doesn’t get any better. It’s all fun and games until someone steps on a Stingray. Or a rattlesnake. In the few short months I’ve been working in California, I’ve seen three patients present to the Emergency Department (ED) with rattlesnake bites – two envenomations. That’s three…
The Most Beautiful Glimpse of Yosemite Without Actually Going Recently a friend of mine sent me this Vimeo knowing I’d love it because of my affection for the Sierras and Yosemite. Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo. Yeah, it’s pretty freakin’ amazing photography. Not only that, but I got this deja vu feeling while…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 8 of There Are Signs Everywhere Safe and sound at JFK after three weeks on this awesome epic zen adventure. Thanks to my friends and colleagues, the WMS and Peak Promotions for making it work, helping clear the schedule, setting me up…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 7 of There Are Signs Everywhere “And then there were ten” (almost nine) Everything turned out all right in the end. But it had been an eventful 24 hours or so. Our down trekking days proved to be, in ways,…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 6 of There Are Signs Everywhere. Exactly one year ago: The Night Before We spent the night before Everest Base Camp (EBC) arrival at Gorakshep where we did some solar charging and sunset watching. Climax Day The Kalapatthar group arrived at…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 5 of There Are Signs Everywhere It was Easter Sunday the day we left for Pheriche. The sunrise from Tengboche left me speechless: Half the group spent some early morning hours at the Monestary. The other half had our own…
From the 2013 Travel Journal – The WMS CME Trek to Everest Base Camp Part 3 of There Are Signs Everywhere As luck would have it, just after Jim taught me how to get the histogram on my camera display, the Rebel T2i battery ran out, so most pics from day one were iPhone specials. They…
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