Your version of a bad day
- The new corner. She put a hand out and now the wrist has a corner it didn’t have this morning. Check, splint, check again — wiggle, feel, warm.
- Berm, neck, green sky. He’s down off the berm saying his neck hurts, and the weather is coming. Moving him and protecting his spine aren’t opposites — if you know how.
- The guy who’s fine. Fifteen-foot ground fall, already joking. His heart rate has an opinion, but only if somebody takes it twice.
Start here
All 15 lessons are worth your time, but this order front-loads what your world serves up:
- Musculoskeletal Injuries — wrists, collarbones, and the splinting doctrine
- Spine & Helmets — when the lid stays on and how to move a neck
- Patient Assessment — serial vitals catch what jokes hide
- Bleeding & Wounds — rock gardens keep receipts
- Evacuation — ride out, walk out, or call — the actual math
Then pressure-test it
Interactive scenarios — one decision at a time, tempting mistakes included, debrief at the end:
- Don’t Sit Him Up — spine + storm, no good options, one right one
- Wiggle, Feel, Warm — the wrist, the splint, the re-check
- The Guy Who’s Fine — trend beats snapshot
The certification question, honestly. “Wilderness First Aid” isn’t a regulated credential. No government body defines what a WFA card means — it means whatever the company that printed it says it means. What counts in front of a patient is whether you can do the work. This course teaches the work, free, and issues a record of completion — not a certificate, and we won’t pretend otherwise. If a race series, bike patrol, or employer requires a provider’s card, take their class — you’ll walk in ahead. If nobody requires you to hold a card, what you need are the skills, not the laminate.
What this is
Fifteen lessons, a 40-question knowledge check, sixteen practice scenarios, a printable field reference card, and a kit checklist. Free, no account, nothing recorded about you, source on GitHub. It teaches decision-making, not hands-on skill — practice the hands-on parts on a real, padded, complaining friend.