Private Training for Mountain Biking Coaches
Wilderness First Aid & CPR Certification
You already know how to handle a gnarly descent. You're great at coaching your students through the scary parts. But do you know what to do when your student crashes on the way down?
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When things go sideways on the trail — a crash, a cardiac event, a head injury three miles from the trailhead — you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to your level of training.
This private certification was built specifically for mountain biking coaches and outdoor professionals who need real wilderness medicine skills, not a watered-down classroom course. In two and a half days, you'll leave with both your Wilderness First Aid certification and a CPR/AED card — plus the kind of practiced calm that only comes from having been thrown into realistic, messy, high-pressure scenarios until the right responses become automatic.
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PICK YOUR WEEKEND
September 11-13 OR September 18-20
Raleigh, NC
What's Included
Wilderness First Aid Certification
The gold-standard patient assessment system used by NOLS, SOLO, and WMA — drilled through real-world scenarios until it's second nature. You'll learn to assess, stabilize, and make critical decisions when the nearest hospital is a long ride and a longer drive away.
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CPR/AED Certification
Hands-on CPR and AED training held Friday afternoon.
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Scenarios built for your world
Broken collar bones. Head and neck injuries. Cardiac events on remote trails. Environmental emergencies. We build the scenarios around the situations mountain bike coaches and outdoor pros actually face - nothing generic.
What You'll Learn
While you're working through real-world scenarios in the field, you'll master the critical skills that could save a life—and more importantly, that give you the competence to venture confidently into wild places.
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Patient assessment - The foundation of every backcountry emergency response
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Trauma management - Controlling bleeding, treating wounds, stabilizing injuries
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Head and Spinal Injuries- Critical for high speed sports
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Musculoskeletal injuries - Splinting, improvising support, deciding on evacuation
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Environmental emergencies - Recognizing and treating hypothermia, heat illness, lightning strikes
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Medical emergencies - Allergic reactions, cardiac events, diabetic issues in the field
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Evacuation protocols - When to evacuate, when to shelter in place, how to communicate for rescue
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Improvisation skills - Crafting solutions with limited gear
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Decision-making under pressure - Staying calm and effective when it matters most
The gals from Girls Who Hike NC splinting Owen's lower leg frature.
The Discount
Private group trainings are available at 10% off our standard rate. Because your group did the heavy lifting of organizing this event — and because we believe outdoor professionals who take their responsibility to their riders seriously deserve to be supported — we're extending an additional 5% for mountain biking coaches and outdoor professionals booking a private training.
15% off, no discount code needed.
About your Instructor
Ali has been a Wilderness First Responder since 2010, with extensive experience managing medical emergencies while leading expeditions across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. She previously managed wilderness medicine training and protocols for Absolute Adventure in the UAE and Oman, and for Dragonfly Outdoors in Hong Kong. She served as medical coordinator for two remote mountain races in the Hajar Mountains — including a mountain biking race — and has spent over a decade throwing herself into situations where being wrong has real consequences.
Practice Makes Permanent
This isn't death-by-PowerPoint. We throw realistic emergencies at you—messy, stressful, urgent—so when the real thing happens on a trail somewhere, you aren't overwhelmed with panic but instead guided by your training.
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There is a saying that practice makes permanent. We use the patient assessment system created by (NOLS) and then drill it over and over and over again, until becomes second nature.
You'll drill scenarios based on real incidents that Ali and her teammates have had to deal with in the backcountry in over a decade of leading trips in the wilderness.
I'm way too happy to have stick through my forearm-
don't worry, its fake!
Gear You'll Need
This course is both inside a classroom and outside in nature. There will be some limited lecture time indoors and then we'll spend lots of time outside practicing what you learn.
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We'll send you a detailed packing list when you register, plus a Zoom call a week before to answer all your questions. But here's what you need to know:
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The Essentials:
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A day pack you can carry comfortably with extra space for provided gear
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Lunch, water and snacks. We will have water for refills
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Sunscreen + bug spray
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A camp seat or chair
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Layers that regulate body temperature, appropriate for conditions
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Rain gear that lets you stay comfortable when the sky opens
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Your current first aid kit if you want to test your own gear, or get our advice on contents
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A notebook, pen and pencil
Gear We Provide
We will provide stocked first aid kits for use during scenarios. We will also have various types of outdoor gear on hand for use in improvisation- things like trekking poles, sleeping pads, paddles, etc. ​
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We will also have water for you to refill your water bottle.
Course Format
We'll start with CPR and AED training on Friday afternoon from 4pm-8pm. Saturday and Sunday we'll get started at 8 or 9 (depending on your group needs) and finish at either 5 or 6pm, with a break around noon for lunch. The weekend is entirely dedicated to first aid. Expect a classroom lecture on specific topics followed by practice using your new knowledge. We move back and forth between the classroom and scenarios frequently through the day to keep you feeling energized and never bored.
Registration, Refunds + Rain Dates
Registration
Registration closes 48 hours before class starts.
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Refunds
If you need to cancel or reschedule, you must contact us 72 hours before class beings. We can either issue you a refund or transfer you to a future class date. If you are within the 72 hours, you can transfer the registration to a friend or family member.
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Rain Dates
This course is a mix of indoors and outdoors. We do not cancel for things like normal rain and thunderstorms. We will cancel for major storms like hurricanes and snow/ice. If we have to cancel for weather, you can either transfer to another course date or receive a refund.