

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Lurking behind every mandatory summit photo can be a heap of pain and adversity. The higher you climb, the thinner the air gets, leaving you vulnerable to altitude illness. Our NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute classes about high-altitude medicine are often the students' favorites, as every class contains at least a few aspiring mountaineers. ...
Posted by Hovey WMI on January 29, 2013 12:45 PM & Tagged AMS, HACE, HAPE, WMI of NOLS, Wilderness Medicine Institute, altitude sickness and mountaineering | permalink | Comments
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