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Oct 8, 2013 at 10:34 am #1308484
last July a friend who would later become my girlfriend told me she wanted to become an avid backpacker. i offered to go on an easy out and back on the AT – the route would take us past several shelter sites so we had plenty of options to modify the trip if the 14 miles was too far for one day. it proved to be slightly out of reach given the late start, but i think the shelter we stayed at was a better choice (excellent spring, met a thru-hiker from the UK, relaxing camp time).
i had some suspicions that it was her first backpacking trip based on the amount of stuff she was carrying, including 96 ounces of water in her pack in addition to 32 ounces outside. she was very paranoid about water. when we stopped for lunch i saw the 96 ounce container and suggested she empty 1/2 of it. she politely said no and i left it alone.
the following morning she relented as we had a very long, steep, rocky uphill to content with first thing out of camp. when we finished up a few hours later, she had about 16 ounces of water left.
jump ahead to this past August. i really miss Dolly Sods and asked her to come along. she would not let me help her pack. in fact, she told me to not show up early to pick her up. i knew she was trying to hide carrying too much water. she had packed 128 or more ounces. her instance on carrying such a heavy load affected my enjoyment of the trip. instead of enjoying the vistas and waterfalls, i was urging her along. my planned camping site was so far away and it was clear i'd have to start looking for a place to make camp. there were zero options, we were in a bog area and it was going to rain overnight – not a place i wanted to sleep. we pushed on another mile until we found something a little more solid.
on the car drive home from Dolly Sods she confessed that she had purchased her backpack and some other gear before our trip in August of 2012 and that this was her second time backpacking. she also told me she was very nervous and she thought we'd be in a very remote place and that added to her fears. i admit i could have eased some of those fears, but i was not aware of them. some poor communication from both of us.
what we did talk about on the ride home was reviewing her gear and instead of going out backpacking for 10 miles, backpack 2 miles, setup a base camp, and then go exploring. for places like Dolly Sods this is workable, but along the AT, not so much.
getting her to be comfortable carrying less water will be a challenge as will replacing some of her heavy car camping gear. her warm sleeping bag weighs 6 pounds. 6 pounds.
we are hoping to spend Thanksgiving in Shenandoah at the lodge (if it's open!) and i think i can use that as a jumping off point to review her gear and get out for a night in the tent.Oct 8, 2013 at 11:24 am #2031895
Dale WambaughBPL Member
@dwambaughLocale: Pacific Northwest
Let her carry your pack for a couple miles. When she puts hers back on, the game may change. You may not get your pack back :)
She needs to deal with the water thing. Are you filtering or treating water? The water sources on route may be the core of her fears rather than simply running out of water. Filtering may appeal more to someone with fears of contaminated water. I would have her directly involved of the filter process, with practice at home and on day hikes.
I think shelter types (the bug and creepy-crawler thing), sleeping pads and insulation/clothing are the biggest areas of contention and sources of boat anchors. Some car camping experience using UL gear might help get over those humps.
I don't need anywhere near as much insulation as my wife and I have to keep that in mind. For example, I have tried to get her to try using windshirts as part of her layering system. She contends that a windshirt won't keep her warm, ignoring the fact that it is used with other layers. She wants a big monolithic layer and I'm sure it is a perceptual issue, but that is hard to change. There is the boy-girl "he's not telling me what to do" factor, regardless of how cautiously I tread.
I'm sure that personality types influence the approach to UL kits. Much of UL kit gathering has a left-brain orientation and a super techno-nerd appeal. All the techy materials, weighing, spreadsheets and the rest may make some right-brainers defensive from the start.
My wife and daughter did a trip to Mount Rainier this summer and came back with a LOT more interest in UL gear and techniques. I had made low key suggestions beforehand, but there's nothing like a few thousand feet of switchbacks at elevation to make new converts.Oct 8, 2013 at 11:49 am #2031907
Paul WagnerBPL Member
@balzaccomLocale: Wine Country
I don't think we can solve this with ideas on how she can reduce the weight of her pack. That's something she needs to do. And the way to encourage her to do it is to listen to her and understand what she is thinking. '
You might find some websites for her to look at. We have some stuff on ours about how my wife looks at all of this: backpackthesierra.com
Don't look at this as an opportunity to show her the "light." Look at it as an opportunity to understand her better, and build a better relationship. The pack will come later.Oct 8, 2013 at 11:51 am #2031909
she is concerned that there are bad nasty things in the water and only overnight treatment will fix it. i use chlorine dioxide and have never had an issue, she balked at even drinking from a well cared for spring at Dolly Sods – made fun of me even. she said i have no idea what is the ground were that water is coming from… we live in Philadelphia, i'm certain the water coming out of that pipe on a mountain in West Virginia is cleaner than what is coming out of the Schuylkill River.
a few good trips under her will help, but then there is the issue of her gear – it is very car camping minded. large and heavy 2 person tent, heavy walmart sleeping bag. money is an issue so it will take some time to resolve some of these points.
i'll be happy if her packed weight for a weekend of fun is less than 20 pounds. i'll be excited if it's under 16, i'll marry her if she can get it under 15! wait, she can probably do that by leaving the water at home… :)Oct 8, 2013 at 12:10 pm #2031916
spelt with a tBPL Member
@speltLocale: SW/C PA
Okay, so, carrying extra water is actually a problem for me. I think, as Dale suggested, that it would helpful to figure out where the fear is coming from. For me, it was partly habit, as on dayhikes as a kid my dad did not want or did not know how to treat water, so we always carried enough for the whole trip. For a long time it didn't register for me mentally that water along the trail could be drinkable. Silly but true! The other part was growing up in an area with mine-related surface water pollution and currently living in an area with heavy agricultural runoff. I use a carbon filter b/c chemicals, UV, and hollow membrane filters don't remove those sorts of contaminants. Once I did the research on a filter and did a couple dayhikes filtering instead of bringing water (and not getting sick afterwards), I got more comfortable.
It sounds like she might want to impress you or is worried you'll judge her if she admits she's afraid. It sounds like you talked this through already, but it might help to tell her these are very common fears. People who've been backpacking for years post on BPL for advice on going solo, for example. It's not a weakness! Just something that needs to be worked through.Oct 8, 2013 at 1:02 pm #2031944
i'm the kind of person that has no problem doing something… when i first went backpacking, i'm sure i was a darn funny sight, but i was having fun. i simply said "i'm going backpacking next weekend" and then i did it.
that part of my personality can be intimidating and toss in her concerns and fears and yeah, extra water is brought.Oct 8, 2013 at 1:15 pm #2031954
Jim HBPL Member
@jraiderguyLocale: Bay Area
My wife had zero car camping or backpacking experience when we started dating, and no real interest in it other than because I wanted her to go. I made the mistake of taking her on a five day backpacking trip in the high sierra during mosquito season for her first trip. She did not have fun learning about catholes from her boyfriend while swatting mosquitoes. After that, I went with baby steps.
We started with car camping. She got comfortable with the camping ways of life like fewer hot showers, wearing clothes until they're actually dirty, and a blurrier definition of clean dishes. Then I'd use dayhikes as backpacking classes. We'd do a dehydrated meal for lunch and I'd teach her the how and why of using the gear. Pretty soon she packed less on her own, and we were pretty much car camping with backpacking gear (to the point of packing our backpacks in the living room and just throwing them in the car).
She still likes to leave the backpacking planning to me, but she's comfortable with my recommendations now, and has her own tasks that she likes taking the lead on while in camp. She's at the point now where she sees backpacking as more fun than burden, and I'm really happy about that.
The good news is you've got someone who had enough interest to take initiative and get herself out there, so you can shoot for a bit better than the 5-years is took me to get to this point. :)Oct 8, 2013 at 8:15 pm #2032133
she loves car camping. we both took a mental health day and went to the beach in Delaware. we remembered we had a tent and a sleeping bag in the car from a trip a few weeks earlier and decided to just stay the night. we were up at 4:30 am and i got to work on time – talk about an adventure.
car camping at a state park is one thing, hiking into the wilds and throwing down for two days is another. she wants to be out there, it's just those pesky fears are hard to over come – we'll get there.
thanks for the comments. i miss this place, glad to be back on-line.Oct 8, 2013 at 9:07 pm #2032151
Katharina LångstrumpBPL Member
@kat_pLocale: Pacific Coast
I think that it would help to look at this in the bigger picture of your relationship.
How you deal with this should be how you hope to deal with any issues between the two of you.
You can try and figure out how to help her not feel the need for so much water, such heavy gear etc…But more importantly you could try and find out why she was not comfortable telling you she was such a newbie…why she did not want you to come over early and have input on her gear choices….how she would react if she read all this.
Sounds like new love and the best time to set the standard for open communication, honesty, expectations etc.Oct 8, 2013 at 9:30 pm #2032157
Mark VerberBPL Member
@verberLocale: San Francisco Bay Area
+1 to Kat's observations about setting the standard for open communication, honesty, expectations, etc.
If the GF wants to work through the issues objectively, the best thing would be for her to figure out the rate she actually uses water. Ideally you have some terrain near home that is representative of where you backpack. Have her weight herself naked + however much water she wants for the next 1-2 hours. Hike, sweat, but go easy enough on the drink that she doesn't feel compelled to immediately pee. Go back home. Take off clothing, and once again weight self +the somewhat empty water container.
This gives a general sense of how much water was lost for whatever time/distance was travelled. Use the distance-time between water refill locations + whatever is an appropriate margin of error / length of test hike * amount of water lost during test hike.
–MarkOct 8, 2013 at 11:29 pm #2032173
Justin BakerBPL Member
@justin_bakerLocale: Santa Rosa, CA
Try doing a car camping out of your backpack thing. Set up at a car campsite or walk in site and see if you can get her to go minimal. If she needs something the car is always there.
That's what I would try and do.Oct 9, 2013 at 6:39 am #2032214
Jennifer MitolBPL Member
@jenmitolLocale: In my dreams....
You know, I first read this and thought – your girlfriend should feel good about herself and you shouldn't berate her for her weight!!!
Then I realized you were talking about PACK weight……,,.Oct 9, 2013 at 6:52 am #2032220
she is embarrassed that her gear is big, heavy, and not really for backpacking. i have tried to make her less self conscience of the gear and make it more about getting out and having a good time and learning. we are both learning.Oct 9, 2013 at 7:12 am #2032222
"Then I realized you were talking about PACK weight……"
hahaha. yes, her pack weight. and it's more about choices of what to bring along. she hasn't made the connection that everything weighs something and she has to carry it. she laughs at me using a scale and knowing weighs for my gear off the top of my head (after a year of not backpacking even!).
an easy example is the water, but there are other things she brought that she admitted would never need or use. we've all been there, i guess i'm trying to find a way to not be judgmental and demanding she "leave the crap at home"
i want her to have fun and enjoy backpacking. i know she'll have to sort a lot of this out on her own. it will just take some time for it all to click.Oct 9, 2013 at 7:43 am #2032229
Katharina LångstrumpBPL Member
@kat_pLocale: Pacific Coast
I did not mean for you to have to answer any of those questions to me or anyone else. Just things to keep in mind while tackling the day to day stuff.
Sounds like you both love the outdoors and fun will be had
:)Oct 9, 2013 at 11:30 am #2032347
Stephen BarberBPL Member
@grampaLocale: SoCal
If you can get to the level of relationship that allows you to go through her stuff when you're on the trail…..
Halfway through the hike, second or third day, go through her pack, identify all the things YOU wouldn't carry or would carry a smaller version of. If you have a smaller version in your pack, swap with her. If you wouldn't carry it at all, put it in your pack. In other words, carry all her excess baggage.
Then ask her at the end of the hike what it was like to carry a lighter pack – experiential education is a wonderful thing!Oct 9, 2013 at 11:58 am #2032361
Paul AndronicoBPL Member
@jakesandwichLocale: Lake Tahoe
It sounds like there is a fair amount of pride/shame going on, which can make communication and change difficult. It may be better to "show her the way" rather than telling her. For example, if you bring one liter of water and use your filter to refill along the way, she will see over time that one liter is all that is needed (assuming readily available lakes/streams). You can also show her that you also have backup water filtration system, like Aqua Mira tablets. But perhaps let her connect the final dots (i.e., 'Hey, I can do that too") rather than doing it for her. This will require patience, as it may not happen at the pace you would like. The good news is it sounds like you both want to make it work.
Edit: After reading this back, it sounds a little wacky. But in my 22 years of marriage I have learned that sometimes holding my tongue is the best course of action :)Oct 9, 2013 at 3:30 pm #2032444
Valerie EBPL Member
@wildtownerLocale: Grand Canyon State
First of all, this gal is "strong like bull" to be carrying all the heavy stuff! Wow, she's amazing! But there are many issues going on here…
Trip Planning: Starting someone off with a 14 mile day — what???? Any time you haven't backpacked with someone before, unless you KNOW that they are a super-athlete, it's better not plan more than 10 miles for the first couple of days. I definitely agree with those who've proposed "baby steps".
Water: If she's really worried about contamination (rather than availability), why not have the two of you discuss (and research) different treatment options before you leave, and get her "buy in" to one or more systems. Let her see the science behind each method, so she'll understand. You might also start out by double-treating — for example, use a Sawyer, then a Steripen on the same liter of water, until she feels more relaxed about it.
Extra Stuff: Encourage (not force) her to do a "post mortem" after each trip — what did she actually use, what was never used, what would she want as a safety margin, what could be left behind next time. She should make a list. I still do this, and I've been backpacking for decades!
Heavy Equipment: Gear Swap! Post a WTB for a new bag for her — I have a warm down women's bag that I would sell very cheaply to someone who would really use it!
Communication: Clearly, Rome wasn't built in a day, but I have to wonder if she feels like you're lecturing her (extrapolating from her not wanting you there while she's packing). Or maybe she feels that she can't keep up with you (14 mile day) and she's embarrassed about it. Include lots of praise for what she's done already, and talk about all the fun you hope to have with her in the future…
[Ed. for grammar]Oct 9, 2013 at 5:02 pm #2032479
John HillyerBPL Member
Buy her an ultralight sleeping bag for Christmas, a five point something ounce puffy for her birthday, and a four point something ounce rain jacket "just because." A year from now on one of those holidays, buy her a 45 liter Zpacks Arc Blast or a 35 liter Arc Slim to put everything in.Oct 12, 2013 at 2:25 am #2033352
Derek M.BPL Member
@dmusasheLocale: Pacific Northwest
All the advice above is great. I would just add that you might just want to focus on one thing at a time, starting with the heaviest stuff she is carrying. Lightening her load in small steps will keep her from feeling overwhelmed.
The water is obviously the biggest issue right now, and it sounds like the sleeping bag is next. Lead by example with the water thing, as suggested above. I might even suggest that you take water from the sketchiest source you feel comfortable with, treat it, and drink that. If you do this enough, it will set a certain bar, and suddenly drinking out of a clean mountain spring won't seem so extreme to her anymore.
For the sleeping bag, I think the present idea is a good one (I hope you really like this girl though, because UL down bags aren't cheap!).
Once she starts getting her pack weight down, there will be a snowball effect. She will realize that if she could change one or two things, she can change more.
Just think of it as an lightweight evolution rather than a revolution. :)Oct 12, 2013 at 8:17 am #2033380
Ken T.BPL Member
Another option.
Ditch the broad and go solo. Too needy. Meet one that hikes already. Save time and anguish.
kidding. slightly.Oct 14, 2013 at 8:21 pm #2034184
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
Yes, sounds like both of you need to work on your communication skills. Root cause issue.Oct 14, 2013 at 8:34 pm #2034190
Sarah KirkconnellBPL Member
@sarbarLocale: In the shadow of Mt. Rainier
A 14 mile day on her first backpacking trip? Lol….I hope I read that wrong.
You have to break others in gently….and never, ever tell them that they can't bring something. No one likes being around a "I told you so" ;-) Even if you don't say it out loud…hehheh! She will find her way….Oct 14, 2013 at 10:09 pm #2034210
David ThomasBPL Member
@davidinkenaiLocale: North Woods. Far North.
Which is easier for you to find: a UL BPer to backpack with or a woman to spend your life with?
I and a dozen other whackos went on Eugene's crazy rim-to-rim-to-rim trip last year and many are going on Mike's Zion trip in April. So it seems to me that UL BPer types are easy to hook up with (at least if you stay in your own quilt). Whereas, many of us looked for years for the right person to settle down with (although my wife did more extreme BPing, climbing, travel and expeditions than I had before we hooked up).
There is always a "price of admission" to be in relationship since no two people are ever perfectly compatible, interested in exactly the same things, have the same sexual tastes, or like exactly the same diet. Is her carrying lots of weight while backpacking a price you're willing to pay to in a BF-GF relationship with her? Turning it around, is being in a harmonious relationship worth enough to you to be patient with her as she adjusts to a BPing mindset?
I'm pretty UL now. I wasn't during the first years I camped and backpacked. You seem to be insisting on a very steep learning curve by the GF. If she was after you to change your bad habits (house keeping, dress, table manners, whatever) so quickly, would she be as much fun to hang out with?
If the water thing really is a paranoia (an irrational fear) AND she wants to rein it in, she could slowly, slowly, desensitize herself with calm exposures to ever so slightly less controlled settings. Trying to convince someone to not have a paranoia doesn't work.Oct 23, 2013 at 11:00 am #2036982
Thomas RaylBPL Member
@traylLocale: SE Tx
+1 on most of the thoughts above.
I suspect one of her "core values" is a strong desire to feel safe and secure, both physically and emotionally. No doubt she didn't want you to show up early because she didn't feel safe about possible criticism of her equipment load. She carries extra water because she wants to feel safe and secure about her drinking water source and is not secure with the idea of treating "wild" water. And so on…
I would suggest that you first reinforce her need for security by telling her that if she feels she needs to carry an extra gallon so she can feel safe, that's ok at least for now and you'll even help carry part of the extra burden. Knowing she'll be within her "safety zone" may go a long way toward relieving some of her anxieties and insecurities.
Next, you can address some simple issues by, say, reviewing with her various water treatment options (filtering? chlorine? iodine? boiling?) and letting HER review some articles and asking her which SHE would feel best about. If she reviews credible information directly herself (NOT relayed through you), she may become more comfortable with "stretching" into new areas, such as drinking treated "wild" water. I would suggest a simple weekend outing where you agree you (plural) will take whatever water she feels necessary to feel "safe", but plan to treat and use "wild" water found on the trail. She may be more agreeable if she's (A) personally validated the water treatment methodology on her own and (B) has her readily-available "safety net" close at hand. If all goes well, you will end with the "safety net" water still intact.
Similarly, with other gear, if she's assured that whatever she has is perfectly ok and you'll help with the weight ("…It's not "extra" weight; you're just dividing the combined load more appropriately…"), she may be amenable to considering trying an "upgrade" or two. Gifts may work fine, but so might borrowing if someone has some lighter weight gear they might be willing to loan and let her "try out over the weekend".
She wanted to "become an avid backpacker", so she does have something of an adventurous spirit. Keeping her "emotionally safe" may go a long way toward helping her expand her horizons. Good luck!
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Apr 5, 2012 at 12:34 pm #1288349
David CorbinMember
@wildyorkieLocale: New York
From http://medgadget.com
video at http://tinyurl.com/7egjt32
Tactical Use Skin Closure Device Stops Traumatic Bleeding in Combat Zones
by SCOTT JUNG on Apr 5, 2012 • 2:26 pm
Bleeding is the single largest cause of preventable trauma death, and when our armed forces are out in the combat zone, stopping a bleeding wound can be difficult. Dr. Dennis Filips, a retired trauma surgeon from the Canadian Navy and CEO of Edmonton, AB-based Innovative Trauma Care, saw a lot of bleeding while serving in Afghanistan, and wondered if there could be a way to reduce the mortality rate from traumatic hemorrhage other than using tourniquets and hemostatic wound agents, which take time to apply.
Inspired by a simple hair clip, Filips designed a device called the Tactical Use Skin Closure (TUSC) device. The TUSC is essentially a sterile, plastic clamp approximately five centimeters in length, with curved needles along the "jaws" of the device. In a trauma situation, the responder clamps the device along the wound. The curved needles and the shape of the TUSC draw the wound up into the device and anchor it with even pressure, allowing the blood underneath to create a clot around the wound and help stop the bleeding until the victim receives further medical attention.
The TUSC can be applied in a matter of seconds and can used by basically anyone with minimal training. The device only costs about $65, so it's affordable for military units, hospitals, and paramedics anywhere.
http://www.innovativetraumacare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53Apr 5, 2012 at 12:48 pm #1864048
Kier SelinskyMember
@kieranLocale: Seattle, WA
I'm not seeing the advantage here. If you get a deep puncture/incision that severs an artery, you must do a tourniquet, because simply sealing up the skin wouldn't stop the bleeding, just let it pool inside you. If you get a skin or muscle-deep slash, elevation and pressure is all that's needed for first aid, and can even hold you over for a couple days in the backcountry if needed. I just don't see what this device adds, albeit for a super remote possibility.Apr 5, 2012 at 1:07 pm #1864056
Alex GilmanBPL Member
@vertigoLocale: Washington
Brilliant! If a mountain lion attacks you, you won't see it and it will probably maul your throat. Even if it were scared away this stupid modified hair clip won't fix your severed artery.
May as well man up and take a staple gun and some super glue with you.Apr 5, 2012 at 1:21 pm #1864065
I try to stay open to new ideas, but I agree, I just don't see the effectiveness of this devise. I've been an EMT for 16 years (4 of which were as a SWAT medic). When I went through Advanced Tactical Medicine school we were taught that after extensive testing (primarily by the USN SEALs using live swine), Combat Gauze was the only hemostatic agent found to have any significant improvement in bleeding control over a standard pressure dressing.
Combat Gauze is a hemostatic agent (a new version of Quik Clot that does not cause exothermic reactions) impregnated in gauze. You can stuff the wound, then wrap it as a pressure dressing. A tourniquet is effective, but obviously only on extremity wounds.
In my "blow out kit" that goes with me in the car, at work, hiking, and motorcycling, I carry a Combat Gauze pack, SOFT-T tourniquet, and triangle bandage. Those three things will bandage a wide variety of boo-boos. The wrapper for the Combat Gauze can be used as an occlusive dressing for sucking chest wounds.
My little first aid kit that complements it has things such as Iodine, bandaids, ibuprofin and benadryl. For my dog, about the only thing I add is hydrogen peroxide incase they eat something they shouldn't have.
Anecdotal story…I walked up on a mountain lion at work one night while hiking in a ravine. He was about 25 feet away from me when we saw each other. I felt very under-armed, with only my Glock pistol (the rifle was back in my car). Luckily, he walked one way and I walked the other. ;-)Apr 5, 2012 at 1:46 pm #1864073
Jeff LaVistaBPL Member
In my mind, just about everyone would be much better served by carrying a triangular bandage or two. Use one as a shemagh, headwrap, pre-filter, bandana or whatever for some multi use purposes. Keep the second one sterile for packing or wrapping directly onto a bad wound, using the second non-sterile over it if needed (that and then any other improvised bandages necessary to stop the bleeding).
Beyond that, they can be used to fashion splints, slings, head bandage, stabilize an ankle, or the material used in strips for who knows what non medical purposes like gear repairsApr 5, 2012 at 2:09 pm #1864080
Daniel CoxBPL Member
@cohikerLocale: San Isabel NF
Ok, I get the theory behind it, but I can only see the use for slicing wounds, where wound margin approximation is neat and clean. Mountain lion wounds would not be neat clean slices. They are gaping ragged holes. Just like IED wounds and blast injuries. At least everyone that I saw in 3 tours in the middle east as a light infantry medic was. Shame on the inventor for not recognizing proper wound care.
Edit: This thing doesn't do anything that proper direct pressure can't. And I bet the ER doc is gonna love trying to remove that thing after it's been in place for a while.Apr 5, 2012 at 2:14 pm #1864081
David DrakeBPL Member
@daviddrakeLocale: North Idaho
Mountain lions aren't enemy soldiers or criminals. The backcountry isn't a combat zone. Anyone who thinks it is should probably stay home. Plus maybe do a little research into the actual number of animal attacks every year, their causes and avoidances.Apr 5, 2012 at 2:24 pm #1864087
Roger CaffinModerator
@rcaffinLocale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe
Reckon a roll of 3M Micropore tape would be far more useful. I have used that to close a large deep slash wound close to 80 mm long. Very successful too.
Made it to the hospital with the tape on: they replaced the tape with about 30 stitches.
CheersApr 5, 2012 at 2:26 pm #1864090
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
Roger doesn't need this device for mountain lion bites. He probably needs a different one for drop bear bites, and it will cost twice as much.
–B.G.–Apr 5, 2012 at 2:43 pm #1864101
"Mountain lions aren't enemy soldiers or criminals. The backcountry isn't a combat zone. Anyone who thinks it is should probably stay home. Plus maybe do a little research into the actual number of animal attacks every year, their causes and avoidances."
You're welcome to your opinion David. Wound care is cound care. Regardless of where it comes from. The mechanism of injury may be different but the treatment remains the same for the most part. This thread isn't about the incidence of animal attacks in the wilderness. It's about the treatment of them when they do occur. How is your post relevant to the discussion?
If I'd mentioned that 13 years of my EMT time has included being a medic on a wilderness SAR team would that seem less "combat" oriented to you? Banking on the fact that you'll never be attacked by an animal is a dangerous mindset. The wilderness can provide injury in a great many ways. Implying that people shouldn't prepare for treating injuries is poor advice.Apr 5, 2012 at 4:10 pm #1864135
David DrakeBPL Member
@daviddrakeLocale: North Idaho
Apologies for the overly-aggressive tone of my post.
I should have echoed the thoughts of others up-thread: this device adds nothing to the combination of knowledge and equipment lightweight backpackers have developed for injury treatment and prevention, under rationally foreseeable circumstances.Apr 5, 2012 at 4:48 pm #1864156
I appreciate the apology David, and I agree with your last post. I was too blunt in my repsonse and also apologize. I try to remember to wait for a while when responding so that I write in a more casual tone, but as you see that doesn't always happen. ;-)Apr 5, 2012 at 10:02 pm #1864257
steven franchukMember
From the website
"It can also be used in conjunction with tourniquets and hemostatic agents to increase their efficacy. Whereas tourniquets can take 3-5 minutes to apply and hemostatic agents require an additional 3-5 minutes of pressure once they have been properly applied, the TUSC can be applied within seconds of wounding."
The issue is time if you are bleading heavily you need to stop the bleeding before you loose too much. A clotting agent may take minutes to work while this device can fully stop or greatly slow blood lose in seconds.
"I'm not seeing the advantage here. If you get a deep puncture/incision that severs an artery, you must do a tourniquet, because simply sealing up the skin wouldn't stop the bleeding, just let it pool inside you."
Kier, blood pooling between the skin and artery is not serious. Once the blood starts pooling the pressure on both side of the artery is equalized and bleeding stops. The pooled blood will then clot and the artery will start healing. The pooled blood and clot will then over time be absorbed by the body.
Once a tourniquet is applied it must be eventually loosened or removed to prevent the loss of the limb due to lack of blood flow. Furthermore the artery cannot heal without blood flow. Unfortunately Loosening the tourniquet could result in additional blood loss. This device when use with a tourniquet would allow the removal of the tourniquet earlier with little to no risk of additional blood loss.Apr 6, 2012 at 1:23 am #1864278
Dustin ShortBPL Member
I still think the issue is this being proposed for mountain lion wounds.
For the most part, humans are larger than lions and they don't hunt us. In some rare circumstances, whether small adults and children, they will attack humans.
The problem is their hunting technique, they stalk behind their prey and when close enough leap onto the back and crush the neck or skull. So injuries tend o consist of either minor lacerataions, or death. Not much in between that would be life threatening. Also most attacks, statistically speaking, seem to occur near civilization on high traffic trails rather than in the backcountry where treatment is more problematic. This may be due to both higher traffic, and weaker or older animals pushed to the fringes of lion territories where less animal game is available (hunger desperation becomes a factor), but granted this is just highly reasoned speculation on my part.
Also why is there all this fear over deep life threatening lacerations? Painful and bloody cuts, sure those can happen, but I rarely see injury reports of "hiker bled to death…" From the very nature of hiking, unless a long fall is involved, it's pretty hard to suffer these types of wounds. If a fall is involved, well then you'll probably have broken bones and internal bleeding to complicate survival anyway where staying calm and improvisation will save your life more than any first aid kit.
There just seems to be a mentality of how to treat an accident and little care of how to prevent an accident.Apr 6, 2012 at 5:48 am #1864294
Ken T.BPL Member
"There just seems to be a mentality of how to treat an accident and little care of how to prevent an accident."
+1 Some have forgotten the principal of mindfulness. Don't go through life with constant reckless abandon. Think before you do…
Oh and you're the snake bite kit guy from last year. It's not that scary outside.Apr 6, 2012 at 6:10 am #1864297
John S.BPL Member
Troll bait.Apr 6, 2012 at 7:03 am #1864312
Ted EBPL Member
@mtn_nutLocale: Morrison, CO
like some of the other guys stated above, i bring quick clot with me on my trips along with a very small first aid kit. the quick clot + compression wrap made from clothing should take care of any large wound unless its so big im going to bleed to death internally, in which case im probably screwed. i don't think this device would help any better than quick clot.Apr 6, 2012 at 7:53 am #1864327
Kier SelinskyMember
@kieranLocale: Seattle, WA
>>"Kier, blood pooling between the skin and artery is not serious. Once the blood starts pooling the pressure on both side of the artery is equalized and bleeding stops. The pooled blood will then clot and the artery will start healing. The pooled blood and clot will then over time be absorbed by the body."
An artery bleeding out, whether contained by your skin or not, is a serious serious issue. Pooled blood, in the quantities you get from an artery, doesn't clot very quickly, think days. The tourniquet should be loosened by the docs in the ER and no one else. Blood pooled in your skin, outside of your circulatory system, is still considered blood loss. It does you no good there.
You can and will die from an arterial eruption even if contained by your skin – it's internal bleeding. Much better to lose an arm to a tourniquet after a few days than to die from internal bleeding. I have very personal experience with the dangers of internal bleeding.Apr 7, 2012 at 1:18 am #1864641
Ian Joseph AtkinsonMember
Just to state my bias up front – I an one of the co-founders of Innovative Trauma Care (780-638-2485). The device is not yet cleared for sale in the US or Canada.
-As per use of the ITClamp in austere environments such as the back country, it is intended to manage wounds in compressible zones, such as the arms, legs, junctions (groin, armpits, base of the neck), and scalp/face. Although it wouldn't manage internal bleeding in the chest or abdomen, it could seal a sucking chest wound or an evisceration until transport.
-The device seals the skin to form a temporary pool of blood (hematoma), and back pressure would form in the cavity (tamponade) to reduce additional blood loss. For a large cavity wound, packing with a hemostatic dressing and then applying the ITClamp would make both devices more effective.
– We believe the device could be used for puncture wounds from accidents of all types, such as trees, knives, saws, etc. As per a mountain lion bite, there are better solutions such as tourniquets available for amputations or large sections with skin removal. For large or irregular wound margins, more than one device can be used in series to pull skin edges together (1oz per device).
-Due to it's simplicity, it could allow for self-aid or buddy-aid (or for working animals), as a rapid temporary fix for a few hours to get to definitive care.Apr 7, 2012 at 5:58 pm #1864843
David CorbinMember
@wildyorkieLocale: New York
Although this device is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it might be possible to import it under an amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&CA).
This amendment provides a means by which individuals can import a prescription drug or device which is not approved by the FDA. The fact that the FDA may, in its discretion, may allow such importation does not legalize the drug or device.
As a practical matter, an individual in the U.S. would need a willing medical practitioner to write a prescription and there would have to be some form of documentation, such as the results of a Phase I clinical trial, explaining why the device "does not appear to present an unreasonable risk to the individual."
Although the FDA's Regulatory Procedures Manual (RPM) (see below) states that the exercise of its discretion is applicable to "a serious condition for which effective treatment may not be available domestically," the RPM is a "policy" rather than a "regulation," and the FDA enjoys virtually unfettered discretion on what unapproved drugs and devices it may allow individuals to import.
In real life, thousands and thousands of unapproved drugs and devices are imported daily, mainly be persons arriving abroad with such items in their baggage.
21 U.S.C. § 384 (j) Waiver authority for importation by individuals
(1) Declarations
Congress declares that in the enforcement against individuals
of the prohibition of importation of prescription drugs and
devices, the Secretary should –
(A) focus enforcement on cases in which the importation by an
individual poses a significant threat to public health; and
(B) exercise discretion to permit individuals to make such
importations in circumstances in which –
(i) the importation is clearly for personal use; and
(ii) the prescription drug or device imported does not
appear to present an unreasonable risk to the individual.
(2) Waiver authority
(A) In general
The Secretary may grant to individuals, by regulation or on a
case-by-case basis, a waiver of the prohibition of importation
of a prescription drug or device or class of prescription drugs
or devices, under such conditions as the Secretary determines
to be appropriate.
(B) Guidance on case-by-case waivers
The Secretary shall publish, and update as necessary,
guidance that accurately describes circumstances in which the
Secretary will consistently grant waivers on a case-by-case
basis under subparagraph (A), so that individuals may know with
the greatest practicable degree of certainty whether a
particular importation for personal use will be permitted.
In implementing 21 U.S.C. § 384 (j), the FDA's Regulatory Procedures Manual (RPM) (2011), Chapter 9, Import Operations and Actions, § 9-2, Coverage of Personal Importations, page 9-14 through page 9-15, states:
In deciding whether to exercise discretion to allow personal shipments of drugs or devices, FDA personnel may consider a more permissive policy in the following situations:
* * * *
2) a) the intended use is unapproved and for a serious condition for which effective treatment may not be available domestically either through commercial or clinical means;
b) there is no known commercialization or promotion to persons residing in the U.S. by those involved in the distribution of the product at issue;
c) the product is considered not to represent an unreasonable risk; and
d) the individual seeking to import the product affirms in writing that it is for the patient's own use (generally not more than 3 month supply) and provides the name and address of the doctor licensed in the U.S. responsible for his or her treatment with the product, or provides evidence that the product is for the continuation of a treatment begun in a foreign country.
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Born in Estelí, Nicaragua, on 12 May 1924, Clara Isabel Alegría Vides was taken to live in El Salvador by her parents at the age of six months. A binational citizen and international traveler, she has claimed Nicaragua as her matria (motherland) and El Salvador as her patria (fatherland). Her father, Daniel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan citizen and medical doctor who was exiled from Nicaragua after expressing his discontent with the United States Marine occupation of Nicaragua, critiquing the Somocista repression of peasants and dissidents in his country, and voicing support for the revolutionary forces of Augusto César Sandino. Although he never returned to Nicaragua, Alegría's father remained a fervent supporter of Sandino's ideals in Central America. Upon being terrorized by the Nicaraguan National Guard, the Alegría family fled to the northwestern department of Santa Ana in El Salvador, the home of Alegría's mother, Ana María Vides. There, Alegría grew up as a member of the landed coffee oligarchy, to which her mother's family belonged.
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In 1943, perhaps seeking other directions for herself and her artistic production, Alegría moved to the United States to attend George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and letters. In 1948 Alegría published her first book of poetry, Anillo de silencio (Ring of Silence), for which the Mexican philosopher and writer José Vasconcelos wrote the prologue. In his travels through Central America, Vasconcelos met the young Clara Isabel Alegría Vides. Vasconcelos, according to sources, suggested to her the pen name of Claribel Alegría. During her residence in Washington, D.C., in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Alegría met the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, whom she called her mentor. In her interview with Velásquez, Alegría affirms that "Juan Ramón Jiménez fue, en ese sentido, muy estricto conmigo y me decía que había que tener oficio para ser poeta, para ser novelista, y yo nunca había tenido un oficio de narradora, solamente de poeta" (Juan Ramón Jiménez was, in a sense, very strict with me and he would tell me that one has to have vocation to be a poet, a novelist, and I only wanted to be a poet, not a prose writer). Despite her initiation in poetry, Alegría has been recognized both for her poetry and prose. In 1978 her book Sobrevivo (I Survive) received Cuba's Casa de las Américas prize for poetry, while her novel Cenizas de Izalco (1966; translated as Ashes of Izalco, 1989), cowritten with her husband, was the first Central American novel published by the prestigious Seix Barral of Barcelona.
While studying at George Washington University, Alegría met Flakoll, a student studying journalism and diplomacy, whom she married in 1947. Together they formed a deep partnership that lasted a lifetime of family commitments, worldwide travels, and writing projects. They lived in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, France, Spain, and Nicaragua, meeting many writers with whom they collaborated on various projects. During that period of living as expatriates, Alegría and Flakoll produced poetry anthologies, in which they compiled and translated the work of international writers. These anthologies include New Voices of Hispanic America (1962), Unstill Life: An Introduction to the Spanish Poetry of Latin America (1970), Cien poemas de Robert Graves (One Hundred Poems of Robert Graves, 1981), Nuevas voces de Norteamérica (New Voices of North America, 1981), and On the Front Line: Guerrilla Poetry of El Salvador (1989). While living in Paris from 1962 to 1966, Alegría and Flakoll met the writers of the Spanish American "Boom" who resided in that city. The couple became lifelong friends of the Argentine Julio Cortázar, who participated in their enthusiasm and support of the Sandinista Revolution until his death. Flakoll and Alegría lived for years in Deyá, on the island of Majorca in Spain, which serves as the setting for the novella Pueblo de Dios y de Mandinga (1985; translated as Village of God and the Devil, 1991).
In 1979 Alegría and Flakoll relocated to Nicaragua to join the Sandinista reconstruction efforts. They cowrote an historical text, Nicaragua: La revolución sandinista—Una crónica política, 1855–1979 (Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution— A Political Chronicle, 1855–1979, 1982), and produced several anthologies of poetry and prose, published in solidarity with the revolutionary movement in El Salvador. During this period Alegría and Flakoll were prolific, publishing La encrucijada salvadoreña (The Salvadoran Crossroads, 1980), Homenaje a El Salvador, and On the Front Line. They also collaborated in the writing of testimonial and resistance texts such as No me agarran viva: La mujer salvadoreña en la lucha (1983; translated as They Won't Take Me Alive: Salvadorean Women in Struggle for National Liberation, 1987), Fuga de Canto Grande (1992; translated as Tunnel to Canto Grande, 1996), and Somoza: Expediente cerrado: La historia de un ajusticiamiento (1993; translated as Death of Somoza, 1996)....
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Sorrow in Her Own Life
As she approaches the period that she calls "old age," Claribel Alegría responds by composing her own elegy, "Accounting," for which she uses a traditional poetic form to reflect upon the events of her life. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Alegría described this poem as having been created as a result of a period of reflection in which she asked herself, "what have been the crucial moments in my life?" In reflecting on her life, she chose "a few electrical instants" so that she could create a poem that would, as she related to Moyers, "sum up all my life." This poem accomplishes this goal, transforming determinate elements of time—"six hours in Macchu Pichu," "the ten minutes it took / to lose my...
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Life Transformed Into Verse
Fugues (1993), Claribel Alegría's collection of elegies and love poems, contains the poem "Accounting," a tally of experiences singled out as "electrical instants" in the aging poet's life. As a reviewer commented in Booklist, the collection is "lyrical" and "speaks of the solitary self and the self that is lost and found in love." Likewise, in "Accounting" the poet draws on past experiences in order to gather this self back to the present moment of composition, through which she desires to be transformed. Alegría wants to transmogrify herself "into a verse," to change her form into something surprising and perhaps strange, like a "shout" and "a fleck of foam." In this poem,...
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Claribel Alegría and the Elegiac Tradition
In the post-Matanza era, elegiac poetry in Central America is eloquent through stark simplicity. The great cathedral organ of Hispanic tradition is sparingly intoned or renounced in favor of an unamplified voice that is at once personal and collective. Death in the Central American isthmus is not cortés, as elegized by Manrique; Death as personified by Alegría is the implacable god Tlaloc demanding blood; his victims are the dispossessed, stripped of land, customs, dress, language, and history. The language of elegy must faithfully reflect this; a lament for the children of the Woman of the River Sumpul must of necessity be as pure as water, uncompromised by reliance on the codes of power.
It is not merely the diction...
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Claribel Alegría: Human-Rights Activist and Poet
"My main concern, rather than to talk about me, is to talk about my countries," says Claribel Alegría in the Fall 1989 issue of Curbstone Ink. "To talk about what is happening in El Salvador and Nicaragua is important," she continues. "Just to let people know what is happening right there, right then: that's my main concern. Nicaragua and El Salvador. I consider them both my countries."
Alegría, who was born in Nicaragua on 12 May 1924 and grew up in El Salvador, is one of the major contemporary voices in the struggle for liberation in Central America. As a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, translator, and indefatigable humanrights activist, she combines both love and revolution, the personal...
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The lead singer of Led Zeppelin is a lean, young man with thick shoulder-length hair named Robert Plant. His cool handling of a frenzied audience last night at Roberts Stadium prevented the British acid-rock group's concert from turning into a riot.
The 3,400 fans, mostly high school students, had taken most of the evening to come alive, but in the last 30 minutes of the two-hour concert, many left their seats and pushed toward the stage area. A few wanted to jump up on the stage with Led Zeppelin and dance. The 20 security guards assigned to the event tried in vain to hold back the enthusiastic youths who were pulsating with the heavy rock beat.
On the main floor, everyone was on his feet and those in the back were standing on chairs to get a better view of the hard-working, turned-on performers. The crowd was grooving to the music – clapping, shaking their heads and bodies and rhythmically flashing peace signs with the fingers at Led Zeppelin.
As the crowd surged forward, civil defense officers jumped up on the stage to avoid being crushed. When one of them drew his night stick and waved it threateningly at the audience, it made the crowd even more excited.
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Angelina Jolie has been known not as a saint, but pretty much as a homewrecker. Well, let's just remember her relationship with Billy Bob Thorton. And years later, while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith, rumors began that Angie was stealing Brad Pitt away from Jennifer Aniston. The two, of course, denied it, but we all know how that turned out.
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Single U and W
In trying to make sense of the expression WeW ,
the first question is not "why W?" but "why
e?" The e in the formula is Euler's number,
the second-most-famous constant in all of mathematics, often
introduced as "the base of the natural logarithms"; but
then the natural logarithms are usually defined as "logarithms
taken to the base e," which is not much help. Another
way of defining e, originally derived from the study of
compound interest, avoids this circularity: e is the
limiting value of the expression (1+1/n)
n as n tends to infinity. Thus we can
approximate the value of e by setting n equal to
some arbitrary, large number. With n=1,000,000, for
example, we get six correct digits of e: 2.71828.
Now, with e in hand, consider an equation somewhat
simpler than the one for W; we might call it single-U:
eU = x.
This equation defines the exponential function, also written
exp(U). The function maps each given value of U to
a corresponding value of x, namely e raised to the
power U. If U is a positive integer, we can
calculate the function's value by simple arithmetic: Just multiply
e by itself U times. For nonintegral U,
the procedure is not quite so obvious but is still well-defined; the
left part of Figure 1 shows the elegant curve generated.
The equation eU = x also defines an
inverse function; we just need to read the equation backward.
Whereas the forward function maps a value of U to a value
of x, the inverse function takes a value of x as
input and returns the corresponding value of U. In other
words, the inverse function finds the power to which e must
be raised to yield a given value of x. This is another
well-known, textbook function: the natural logarithm, written
log(x) or ln(x). The log function has the
same graph as the exponential function but reflected across the
diagonal, as shown in the right part of Figure 1.
Sometimes it's helpful to think of functions like these as if they
were machines. The exp function works like a meat grinder:
Dump a U into the input hopper, turn the crank, and out
comes an x equal to eU . The same
machine can calculate logarithms if we run numbers through it
backwards and turn the crank the other way, but there is an
important caveat: When the machine runs in reverse, some inputs can
jam the gears. For example, what output should the machine produce
if you ask it for the logarithm of 0 or -1? (If you have a
scientific calculator handy, see how a real machine answers these questions.)
The problem is that the logarithm function works only over a limited
domain. Exponentiation is defined over the entire real number line;
any real value of U, whether positive or negative, produces
a value of exp(U), and that value is always a positive real
number. The inverse function is not so well-mannered: As the right
side of Figure 1 suggests, log(x) is defined only if
x is positive. This limitation can be sidestepped by
venturing off the real number line into the wilds of the complex
plane. If the value of log(x) is allowed to be a complex
number, with both a real and an imaginary part, then
log(-1) has a definite value: According to a famous formula
of Euler, it is equal to π i, where i is the
imaginary unit, the square root of -1. The W function is
also defined throughout the complex plane, but in this article I
shall confine myself to the straight and narrow path of real
numbers. However, see Figure 4.
One more simple fact about logarithms will be needed below. The
logarithm of the product of two numbers is equal to the sum of the
logarithms of the factors: log(xy)=log(x)+log(y). Likewise
for quotients: log(x/y)=log(x)-log(y). These relations were
the main reason for inventing logarithms in the first place: They
convert multiplication and division into the easier tasks of
addition and subtraction.
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Tyler Antwine was recruited from Osawatomie, Kan., to be the head pit master at We B Smokin' BBQ, which opened Dec. 16 in Hayden.
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Hayden residents and visitors are following their noses to the west side of town where savory smoke billows from a large smoker.
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Serve as a quick, light supper or as tapas with a glass of sherry.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 40 min.
Step 1
Heat 1 1/2 teaspoons oil in a medium nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Add onions and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring often, until very tender and starting to turn light golden, 10 to 20 minutes. (Add 1 to 2 tablespoons water, if onions are browning too quickly.) Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes have melted into the onions, about 10 minutes. Season with pepper; set aside to cool.
Step 2
Whisk together eggs, egg whites and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt in a bowl. Fold in tuna and reserved onion mixture with a rubber spatula.
Step 3
Wash pan, wipe dry and brush with remaining 1 teaspoon oil. Place over low heat. Add the egg mixture and stir gently to distribute tuna and onions. Cook over low heat until underside is golden and top is starting to set, about 5 minutes.
Step 4
Use a spatula to loosen tortilla, then slide it onto a plate. Invert it back into the pan and cook until the bottom is set, about 1 minute. Slide onto a serving platter and cut into wedges. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Alternative Cooking Method
If flipping a large tortilla makes you nervous, finish the tortilla by placing the skillet under the broiler until the top is set and golden brown, about 2 minutes. Slide the finished tortilla onto a platter and serve.
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