The BWA may be putting on a Wilderness First Aid class.

If interested, post here or email me. To find my email address, look in your handbook or click on my user name on this forum.

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Dale Perry
Safety Officer
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As a correction, we have a $600 dollar deposit on Wilderness First Aid that Justin has agreed to hold through the end of this year. Need to check on current student cost with Landmark but this should be about 1/3 of the minimal cost for the class.

Larry

and I'm interested in both WFA and CPR

I am also interested, very interested. I think it would be a shame and a travesty to let this WFA class go past after already putting a deposit down. I vote for the end of August, before the fall festival and release season gets underway.

Hanley

Ideal situation...we get a CPR class before Labor Day weekend, and the WFA class for the weekend of Sept. 6-7th. I figure most people will be taking the long weekend to boat.

When do the festivals/releases begin?

Sept 5-8 is the first weekend of Gauley Season.

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Yeah, that weekend is pretty much a wash. That's why I suggested the end of August. From September 5th through the end of October you'll be fighting an uphill battle trying to get folks to sign up for a WFA class.

If we can't do it by the end of August, I feel we should make it a priority to get it done sometime in early November. No sense in throwing away $600 of club money, especially considering that the organization has been very, very accommodating.

FYI: Gauley Season always starts on the first Friday after Labor Day and Labor Day is the first Monday in September. This year Labor Day is on the 1st, giving us an early Gauley Season. GauleyFest usually falls on the third weekend of Gauley Season. Gauley Season runs for six consecutive weekends. The first five are 4-day weekends (Fri-Mon) and the last one is a two day weekend. Release on Fridays and Mondays is sometimes a bit less than the Saturday and Sunday releases, depending on how much water is in Summersville lake and how the ACOE feels about it.

Bridge Day on the New River (when parachutists jump off the bridge) is always the third saturday in October. In recent years, the ACOE has given us an extra day of release on the Sunday following Bridge Day if Bridge Day weekend does not overlap with the last weekend of Gauley Season. Because we are off to an early start of Gauley Season there is not an overlap, so Bridge Day weekend may very well offer an additional opportunity to hit the Gauley.

Hanley

I like the November idea. If I recall Fred said we could use his place for the course...Fred?

My august calendar is already full, but if someone wants to try and get this going before Labor Day that would be super. If not, I'll get the ball rolling on the WFA after the holiday.

Dale,
I would be interested in the WFA class.

Allen

I am interested in the WFA class. I cannot do it until after Gauley season. For me, that means the weekend of Oct 18-19 or after would be just fine, FWIW.

Meryl