On Mount Bogong…
At slightly 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 remarkable 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 stored going.
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Key episode takeaways
- Significance of sporting a helmet snowboarding/snowboarding
- Adventuring with a gaggle verus solo
- The significance of understanding easy methods to handle environmental risks (eg. chilly) throughout first help emergencies, easy methods to heat somebody up and maintain them heat… and having the gear to take action.
- The worth of considerate planning and communication between these doing first help 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 that you must do the analysis to your state of affairs.
- Why having ambulance cowl is crucial
- Understanding what ‘again to regular’ can for outdoorsy folks vs ‘regular’ folks
- Understanding that wellness is a course of and being lifelike 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
- Put up holing = once you step on what you assume is agency snow, however sink deep as much as the knee and even larger. Exhausting over distance.
- Yard sale = when a skier or snowboarder crashes laborious and all their gear goes in all places. Skiis, poles, backpack. It appears to be like like a yard (Aussie = storage) sale.
- AAWT = Australian Alps Strolling Observe
- DIN settings = is about in your ski bindings based mostly in your snowboarding means, weight, top, boot and circumstances. It’s the industry-adopted scale that enables your skis to launch your boot once you crash (good, inflicting a yard sale) versus not releasing your ski which may exert excessive strain and wonky angles in your physique (unhealthy).
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Sponsor // Paddy Pallin
Rescued Podcast primary photograph // Ben Cirulis and fotografija.com.au
