Multi-pitch rock climbing outside Glacier National Park

You are a Forest Service wildland firefighter supervisor and trainer. You have a strenuous field exercise planned for tomorrow for a new cadre. Unfortunately, an unseasonable heat wave is in place and the high temperature predicted for the day is in excess of 110 degrees F.

What are your concerns and how should you address them? Click here to find out.

Don't know where to begin or what to do? Take one of our wilderness medicine courses. Guides and expedition leaders should consider taking our Wilderness First Responder course.

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