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Lectures and Resources for RTM 151 Special Topics A-F backpacking, rock climbing, winter mountaineering, flat water paddling,survival, ropes challenge course, and caving! |
Lectures and Web based Resource
Check those lecture outlines and study guide before you take the exam. (Study Guide for RTM 151 Basic Modules Exam)
Please feel free to send an email to the instructor with any specific feedback about specific questions on the exam after your test experience. The on-line learning format may require some adjustments in either the lectures or the test questions. Appreciate your assistance.
Lecture Outline
Outdoor education has many definitions and purposes. One of our hopes is that by developing outdoor recreation skills you as a student will develop a life long leisure pursuit that will increase your quality of life and will also increase your appreciation for and conservation of the natural environment.
We've also found that quality outdoor challenges also provide a superior context for working at issues of personal development, team development, leadership, and multi-cultural understanding. RTM 151A-F will touch on those goals but we encourage you to explore other courses in or curriculum that use 'outdoor ed' as a very specific means for pursuing those goals.
b. Planning the Backcountry Experience
The following web sites provide an overview of the federal agencies who manage backcountry land resources as well as providing some web based samples of places that you as a backcountry user could secure more information about potential trips.
Primary land manager resources (the big 3):
National Parks http://www.nps.gov
United States Forest Service (www.fs.fed.us)
Bureau of Land Management http://www.blm.gov/nhp/index.htm
Other resources: some examples of web pages that give you information on where to go or who to go with
www.usparks.about.com/mbody.htm
II. Topic II: Comfort in the Outdoors - Regulation of Body Temperatures
Primary resources:
http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/heattransfer/heattransfer.html(read for the concepts, you are not responsible for the thermodynamic formulas)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html(click on heat transfer button)http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/bodcon.html#c2
http://hyperphysics.phy_astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/sweat.html
Other resources:
III. Topic III: Hypothermia - Cold Emergencies
Lecture OutlinePrimary resources:
http://www.sarbc.org/sarbc/hypo1.html
http://www.sarbc.org/resqair/warnhypo.html
http://www.sarbc.org/resqair/thermom.html
http://www.sarbc.org/resqair/help-hud.html
Hyperthermia - Heat Emergencies
Primary resources: http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic236.htm
Read sections 1-4 and section 8
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/heatill.html
Other resources: http://enw.org/HeatEmergencies.htm
Primary resources: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/chp3.php
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/shelters-2.php
review the multiple shelters at this above link (# 5 shelters)
with particular attention to the debris hut.
snow shelter options are seen at the link below
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/winter/wintshel.shtml
Other resources: http://www.wilderness_survival.net/
http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/
VI. Outdoor Equipment Lecture Outline
Primary resources: Follow the links below for general information on each equipment area. Consult the lecture outline for key questions to answer along the way. These information links are taken from the retail link www.rei.com.
VII. Navigation With Map and Compass
Lecture OutlinePrimary resources: Topographic maps http://geography.about.com/od/topographicmaps/a/topographicmaps.htm
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/topo/topo.htm
GPS (Geographic Positioning System) (focus on general concept only)
Other resources:
a. Primary resources: Leave No Trace organization
Leave No Trace principles & practices -
click on the 'details' of each of the seven principles
b. Other resources: Wilderness preservation system (review general NWPS info)
Sample backcountry regulations for Yellowstone National Park (hit regulations link)
a. Primary resources: General treatment methods
b. Other resources: Survival and water
great additional detail on treatment methods
a. Primary resources:
b. Other resources:
a. Primary resources: Healthy Eating
Backcountry Foods (follow the links to read the full article)
b. Other resources: Nutrition and the backcountry
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/food/main.htm
a. Primary resources: consult the links for each of the separate categories below.
Lightning http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/letter_to_editor.html
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/ploutdoor.htm
Avalanches http://www.avalanche.org/~nac/ (take the backcountry tour)
http://classic.mountainzone.com/features/avalanche/ (optional source)
Altitude http://www.ismmed.org/np_altitude_tutorial.htm
http://www.mountaineering.ie/features/general/highaltitude.htm (optional source)
Snakes http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/995_snakes.html
Bears bear safety guidelines National Park Service
Wolves wolf facts - (click on the wolf picture) -
optional case study showing some aggresion
Spiders (treatments)
Bees http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/reference/beeswasps/index.as
Mosquito Howstuffworks "Mosquito Bites and Diseases"
Center for Disease Control has recommendations on repellants
CA tally for West Nile Virus is at this website.