Training

Basic Leadership Training (Part II)  

This IMR members-only leadership course will prepare you for posting and leading your own trips. Includes information on planning trips, trip classification, knowing your leadership ability, how to use the web-site for posting your own trips, ensuring participants know what they are signing up for, the IMR Essentials, group dynamics, decision making, and emergency procedures. Training will be held on Monday, Feb. 13 and Wednesday Feb. 15 from 6 - 9 pm. Please plan on attending both nights if possible. The club will provide pizza or sandwiches, etc. for attendees. Contact patricedavies1@gmail.com or eldredgek@gmail.com to sign-up.

Basic Leadership Training (Part 1) 

This IMR members-only leadership course will prepare you for posting and leading your own trips. Includes information on planning trips, trip classification, knowing your leadership ability, how to use the web-site for posting your own trips, ensuring participants know what they are signing up for, the IMR Essentials, group dynamics, decision making, and emergency procedures. Training will be held on Monday, Feb. 13 and Wednesday Feb. 15 from 6 - 9 pm. Please plan on attending both nights if possible. The club will provide pizza or sandwiches, etc. for attendees. Contact patricedavies1@gmail.com or eldredgek@gmail.com to sign-up.

A round-table discussion amongst trip leaders on every subject related to leading trips.  For example, planning for the upcoming season, how to facilitate trips, how trip leaders can use the website to make life easier for them, etc.  Planning on a two-hour early evening meeting.  Agenda will be sent out soon and invites have been made to those who have led trips in the past couple years.  However, if you are interested in attending and have not been invited (I do make mistakes ... infrequently, I hope), please contact me.

David Wike of the Idaho Bird Observatory will give a presentation on trapping and banding birds during their fall migration. The Boise Front provides a unique opportunity for this work because many migration paths pass through the area. Field trips to accompany the birders as they trap and process birds are very popular, and there may be volunteer opportunities available. There should still be 4 weeks (7 days a week) of song bird trapping and banding and 5-6 weeks of hawk/forest owl trapping and banding as well as hawk watch counting left in the migration season.

IMR Monthly meetings are a way to hear about topics of interest to Idaho outdoor enthusiasts. The meetings are usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and free and open to the public (of course, we shamelessly hope you like what you see and will join the club--but we also don’t pressure you!). We provide outing updates, announcements, and have a 45 minute presentation followed by discussion and/or social time so people have a chance to meet one another.

WHERE: MK Nature Center at the Idaho Fish and Game, 600 S. Walnut Street, Boise, Idaho 83712

WHEN: 7 pm.

Basic Leadership (2nd evening class: 11/6 & 11/13)

Basic Leadership will be spread out on two Tuesday evenings, November 6 & 13 from 5:30-8:30pm. Location will be confirmed asap—but will be convenient to central Boise. Small materials fee only. This is an introductory course which is designed to help members who are interested in leading trips feel more comfortable about how to go about doing so. The course is adapted from several outdoor organizations such as the Mountaineers and Colorado Mountain Club, and will be taught by experienced Leaders who have led many trips for a variety of organizations. This class will cover a lot of general items that will help prepare members who wish to lead trips in the future. Some of the items covered include:

• Planning trips: researching what you’d like to do
• Trip classifications
• Knowing your Leadership Ability—when are you in a zone versus over your head
• Getting trips listed in newsletter/website
• IMR Forms and how to use them
• Ensuring participants know what they are signing up for
• The IMR Essentials: what to have with you; what your participants should have on trips
• Group Dynamics: helping everyone attain the goal safely
• Decision Making: How to deal with making a tough decision when not everyone agrees
• Emergency procedures (who ya gonna call)

Basic Leadership (1st evening class: 11/6 & 11/13)

Basic Leadership will be spread out on two Tuesday evenings, November 6 & 13 from 5:30-8:30pm. Location will be confirmed asap—but will be convenient to central Boise. Small materials fee only. This is an introductory course which is designed to help members who are interested in leading trips feel more comfortable about how to go about doing so. The course is adapted from several outdoor organizations such as the Mountaineers and Colorado Mountain Club, and will be taught by experienced Leaders who have led many trips for a variety of organizations. This class will cover a lot of general items that will help prepare members who wish to lead trips in the future. Some of the items covered include:

• Planning trips: researching what you’d like to do
• Trip classifications
• Knowing your Leadership Ability—when are you in a zone versus over your head
• Getting trips listed in newsletter/website
• IMR Forms and how to use them
• Ensuring participants know what they are signing up for
• The IMR Essentials: what to have with you; what your participants should have on trips
• Group Dynamics: helping everyone attain the goal safely
• Decision Making: How to deal with making a tough decision when not everyone agrees
• Emergency procedures (who ya gonna call)

This 16-hour course focuses on first aid under conditions where the arrival of emergency responders or the patient evacuation may be delayed due to constraints of terrain, weather, and available persons or equipment. It may be necessary to care for an injured person for several hours or days. Topics covered include controlling bleeding, bandaging, splinting, preventing shock, and monitoring the injured person.

Participation in the class is open to all, however IMR members will be given preference. The course costs $70.00 for members and $75.00 non-members: $65 for the Red Cross, $5 for use of the facility, and $5 non-member fee.

In time, IMR will require some type of first aid training for trip leaders. This class meets that requirement. Participants will receive instructional materials and a Red Cross certificate valid for 3 years.

This 16-hour course focuses on first aid under conditions where the arrival of emergency responders or the patient evacuation may be delayed due to constraints of terrain, weather, and available persons or equipment. It may be necessary to care for an injured person for several hours or days. Topics covered include controlling bleeding, bandaging, splinting, preventing shock, and monitoring the injured person.

In time, IMR will require some type of first aid training for trip leaders.

This class meets that requirement. Participants will receive instructional

materials and a Red Cross certificate valid for 3 years.

Bring: lunch both days; on Sunday bring items you would have on a trip (packed daypack, skis, trekking poles, snowshoes, etc.) and be dressed to go outside.

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, 2007 9 am - 5 pm

COST: $65, checks made payable to the American Red Cross and a suggested facility use donation of $5 to $10 per person

ENROLLMENT: 7 to 10, preference given to Idaho Mountain Recreation members