The 2008 Appalachian Wilderness Medicine Conference is in Morgantown, WV Aug 8-10, hosted by WVU Department of Emergency Medicine and WV ACEP. There's lots of good information for paddlers, including wilderness CPR, shoulder reduction, drowning and hypothermia, splinting, etc. We'll also have a search and rescue course on Friday, simulated rescue scenarios and other practical skills workshops at Cooper's Rock State Park on Saturday, and a choice of cave rescue with the Mountaineer Area Rescue Group, or river rescue with Charley Walbridge, Eric Nies, and Adam Robbins on Sunday.
Friday night we'll be showing some films from the National Paddling Film Festival.

The upper Yough releases on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, and there's always the Lower Yough, Cheat, and ASCI nearby as well. (And if the rain keeps falling, maybe some others...)

More information and online registration is available at:
[www.hsc.wvu.edu]

If any questions, email jackditty@mac.com