Summer programs include sailing lessons and instruction, wilderness canoe trips, remote mountain backpacking, and   marine navigation classes.

Beginner and Intermediate Sailing Classes, July, 2012 on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands.

• Sailing Classes and Instruction
• Private lessons for Cruising and Dinghy
• Learn to Cruise With Your Boat
• Skippered Charters

Ridge Explorations presents Adventure Backpacking: The Toba Traverse

The Toba Traverse trip follows a ridge divide on the British Columbia coast above the spectacular fjord named Toba Inlet. The whole area is a rugged arctic-alpine wilderness of granite ridges clothed in heather and grasses. It is strewn with dozens of alpine lakes which are tucked into deep shady pockets. Most of these have granite slabs shooting straight into the water. The area has a very remote character despite being less than two hundred miles north of the city of Vancouver.

This trip is a remote backpacking excursion that requires some backcountry experience:

* Basic backpacking experience

* Camping skills.

* Physical fitness for a 5-day backpack trip.

* Technical climbing is not involved

* There is opportunity for scrambling some summits

Ridge Explorations and Wabakimi Outfitters present The Jumping Caribou River Northwoods Canoe Expedition

This expedition is eight days in the Ontario boreal forest…the beautiful, Five Star Canoe Country of Wabakimi Park. Canadian Shield country provides some of the best camping possible with smooth granite outcrops covered with soft caribou moss.

On this trip, Ridge Explorations' guests will travel the waters of the Voyageurs, the paid paddlers who crossed the North Woods, carrying trade goods north and furs south for the famous Northwest Company and the Hudson Bay Company. This “Company of Adventurers,” as it was called, was key in the exploration and opening of Canada. Like the horse in the American West, the canoe was critical to this exploration because of the nature of the land, for Canada, and especially Ontario, is a land of waterways. There are so many lakes and rivers that if they are not directly connected, usually a short portage, or carry, takes you to the next water system.

Advanced Cardiac Life Support - C.P.R. - Advanced Pediatric Life Support
Learn Advanced Resuscitation Skills.
Target audience is Physicians, Nurses, Paramedics, and E.M.T.s .

Coming Soon!

Wilderness First Aid Curriculum

Our Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of medical care in a wilderness setting. The course focuses on Basic Life Support skills, minor trauma, selected environmental topics, spine assessment and the ruling out process, allergic and toxic reactions, and “common” medical emergencies. The majority of time is spent in hands-on skills practice and simulations. Our Standard WFA is two days long.