From pre-trip checklists to decision-making in the field, it takes both knowledge and practice to make sure you’re equipped for backcountry safety. The Wilderness Medicine Reference app, designed for recreational outdoor enthusiasts and professionals alike, serves as a digital guide to hone those skills with as much information and material as a thick reference book. App founder Kaen Lapides explains how it can help users respond to illness and injuries in the outdoors — and, crucially, prevent those incidents in the first place.
About the Speaker
Kaen Lapides (known as “kl”) is a paramedic, educator and founder of the Wilderness Medicine Reference app. She has worked with ski patrol in Snowmass and Breckenridge and taught courses for Colorado Mountain College and Desert Mountain Medicine. Lapides also worked for many years with the Colorado Outward Bound School.
