Luc Mehl
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What Goes Right: Rio La Venta Close Call Report
A group of paddlers, Sarah, Jack, Rod, and Heidi, embarked on a challenging expedition on the Rio La Venta in Mexico. Despite selecting the river for its Instagram popularity and ease, they faced unexpected high water levels and various risks such as sieves, rocky passages, venomous snakes, and limited communication.
The podcast delves into the importance of group dynamics, communication, and decision-making during outdoor adventures, emphasizing the lessons learned from close calls for safety training and the significance of collecting data on near-miss incidents to prevent future accidents.
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Відео

Charlie Walbridge: What have we learned from the river accident database?
Переглядів 1302 місяці тому
Charlie Walbridge is a pivotal figure in whitewater safety, overseeing the American Whitewater Accident Database. Leveraging extensive research and experience, he offers invaluable insights into preventing mishaps. With a rich background in paddling, design, education, and conservation, his expertise is widely recognized, culminating in prestigious awards. Charlie Walbridge discusses his extens...
Deb Ajango: Emergency Preparedness
Переглядів 763 місяці тому
Deb Ajango is a world-class wilderness medicine and risk management educator. Deb's teaching is so effective (as recognized by several national awards) because she combines her extensive experience with brain science-an understanding of how our brains learn, respond, and are best prepared for emergencies. Deb talks about how the brain works, what ideal training looks like, and how best to prepa...
Will Gadd: Risk Engagement and Decision-making in the Mountains
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Will Gadd is a world-class mountain athlete with sponsorships from Red Bull, Arc'teryx, Black Diamond, Scarpa, and others. Will's accomplishments include first descents by kayak and national championships in rock climbing, ice climbing, and paragliding. But what really caught my attention is Will's dedication to safety outreach. Will joined a Start & End at Home session to share his insights re...
Daryl Miller: From Rodeo Clown to Denali Ranger
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Daryl Miller has been a risk management role model of mine since I first heard some of his safety messaging based on 18 years as a Ranger and Chief Ranger with the Denali National Park. I visited Daryl at his house a few years ago and was so enthralled by his stories that I interrupted the conversation to ask if I could start a recorder. Daryl's path took him from Vietnam to the rodeo to a care...
Brooke Edwards: The Stress Continuum for Outdoor Recreation
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Brooke Edwards is a mountain guide and avalanche educator with twenty years of experience in the ski industry. She is part of the Responder Alliance and talks about the stress continuum, stress injuries, and how human factors and self-awareness influence decision-making in hazardous environments. Brooke refers to a few slides in this episode, which can be viewed via the 'episode website' link. ...
Highly likely, low consequence: The learning sweet spot.
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I loved this thin-ice example of an ideal learning environment: highly likely that things will go wrong, and not a big deal when they do. thingstolucat.com/2024/02/29/highly-likely-low-consequence-learning/
Start & End at Home: Stress Continuum with Brooke Edwards
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Start & End at Home is an online Wilderness Risk Management and Trip Planning course. The course includes an Expert Series conversation with guests like Brooke. Brooke is an international mountain and ski guide, avalanche instructor, and member of the Responder Alliance team. We asked Brooke to talk about stress injuries and tools to manage subjective hazards. Brooke's website: wildworldwanderi...
Start & End at Home: Risk Management with Pat Gault
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Start & End at Home is an online Wilderness Risk Management and Trip Planning course. The course includes an Expert Series conversation with guests like Pat. Pat is a retired Air National Guard 212th Rescue Squadron Pararescue Jumper ("PJ" ... a special forces team that specializes in domestic and military search and rescue). Pat has also worked as a Denali Mountain Ranger, Ski Patroller, and f...
Murgab River Landslide and Dam, Tajikistan
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Megan Erspamer discovered this landslide while planning a packrafting trip in Tajikistan. Megan was scouting the route ahead of time using near-real-time satellite imagery and noticed a lake where she expected whitewater. [Right-click on the play button to set to Loop view] This tool (Sentinel-2) and others are all part of Start & End at Home, a wilderness risk management and trip planning cour...
Ice rings, Leavenworth Fish Hatchery
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Thanks to Kyle Sullivan-Jones for sharing these clips! More info at thingstolucat.com/2023/12/17/the-glide-ice-rings-ii/
Ice Rings: Big Lake, Alaska
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Ice rings are not very well understood. The most popular theory is that upwelling water saturates snow on thin ice and triggers a cascading series of circumferential cracks. For photos and more info, check out thingstolucat.com/2023/12/08/the-glide-ice-rings/ Music is Chaleur épique sous les tropiques by AGAV.
Hiking along the Northern Alaska Range, Denali National Park
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Hiking for a few weeks on the Denali Park road and then along the northern flank to Perkypile. More info at: thingstolucat.com/2023/11/14/a-hike-along-the-northern-alaska-range
Alaska's ridiculously amazing Wild Ice skating window
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Alaska's ridiculously amazing Wild Ice skating window
Black Canyon Gunnison Packraft Highlight Reel, 2023
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Black Canyon Gunnison Packraft Highlight Reel, 2023
Rain shadow: Mount Foraker, Alaska.
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Rain shadow: Mount Foraker, Alaska.
Packrafts as Rescue Crafts Training with JMR, Mendenhall River
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Packrafts as Rescue Crafts Training with JMR, Mendenhall River
Tatshenshini raft and packraft; hike to Yakutat, Alaska
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Tatshenshini raft and packraft; hike to Yakutat, Alaska
Paddle Up a Level online packrafting course!
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Paddle Up a Level online packrafting course!
XC Ski on Alaska's arctic coast: Kotzebue to Kivalina
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XC Ski on Alaska's arctic coast: Kotzebue to Kivalina
Lake Clark Skate Date, Alaska
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Lake Clark Skate Date, Alaska
Fine vs. course grained lake ice ... textures and safety considerations
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Fine vs. course grained lake ice ... textures and safety considerations
Lake Tustumena Ice Skate: 50 miles (80 km), Alaska
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Lake Tustumena Ice Skate: 50 miles (80 km), Alaska
Portage Lake Skate, Alaska. March, 2023
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Portage Lake Skate, Alaska. March, 2023
Wild Ice! online course excerpt: What to carry on the ice
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Wild Ice! online course excerpt: What to carry on the ice
Traveling over cracks and pressure ridges in ice
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Traveling over cracks and pressure ridges in ice
Wild Ice Skating: January 2023 Skilak Lake, Alaska
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Wild Ice Skating: January 2023 Skilak Lake, Alaska
May the wind always be at your back! Windy.com for adventure planning
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May the wind always be at your back! Windy.com for adventure planning

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @bastogne315
    @bastogne315 7 годин тому

    I dislocated my spine watchin this!

  • @jamescook9010
    @jamescook9010 13 годин тому

    Yeah I don't do that

  • @UdoKellner
    @UdoKellner 4 дні тому

    Super Timelapse!!!

  • @Noname-gb2yy
    @Noname-gb2yy 15 днів тому

    Which river is that?

  • @russ9567
    @russ9567 2 місяці тому

    Junk review…

  • @AbMtnGuy
    @AbMtnGuy 2 місяці тому

    Great stuff Luc! Really appreciate your work presenting folks expertise and knowledge!

  • @ellazhan6038
    @ellazhan6038 3 місяці тому

    So creepy

  • @Onelesstraveledby
    @Onelesstraveledby 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for sharing, excellent video!

  • @mezmay12
    @mezmay12 3 місяці тому

    not so bad ice!

  • @akhuntfish7557
    @akhuntfish7557 3 місяці тому

    Skilak lake? Is it still dangerous around the pressure ridges later in winter when the ice is 2 ft thick?

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 3 місяці тому

      Yes, Skilak. And that's a great question that is hard to answer. 2-ft thick ice is certainly stronger ... less flex ... less able to crack. But I'd still be nervous around pressure ridge because they are complex. There is often some standing water, some sandwiching of ice-water-ice, etc. And I'm most nervous that the ridge will open ... if the ice is under tension due to wind direction ... I think it would pull apart at the pressure ridge. I've seen footage of this elsewhere and it can quickly turn into a big deal. There are a few well-documented group rescues in northern Europe. I would hope to be able to find a safe place to poke around (with a ice probe or similar) and learn more about the ridge before deciding to cross or not.

    • @akhuntfish7557
      @akhuntfish7557 3 місяці тому

      @@lucmehl_ak Thank you for the info!

  • @clabouve1986
    @clabouve1986 3 місяці тому

    I use to live on tok cut off road. Gakona

  • @calebkopp5230
    @calebkopp5230 4 місяці тому

    Awesome talk! Thanks so much for publishing this Luc!

  • @freepete1
    @freepete1 4 місяці тому

    Luc and Will is a conversation I’ve wanted to hear for years thank you both !

  • @robertkerner4833
    @robertkerner4833 4 місяці тому

    Excellent conversation, particularly about the cognitive traps that we set for ourselves. It’s amazing how poor decision making in the backcountry mirrors that in other arenas like healthcare. Years ago I read an article by a ski guide who would debrief with her clients at the end of the day with this question: How did we die today? It was her way of forcing the group to confront all their decisions during the course of the day and how any one of them ( or combinations of decisions) could have been fatal.

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 4 місяці тому

      I'm glad you liked it! I've started a podcast to host these conversations ... you can find them via UA-cam, or Apple, Spotify. "Triple Point Training" ua-cam.com/play/PL0LpBk1M_l8X-N6JvMjFyTcOz4RUsr_ek.html

    • @robertkerner4833
      @robertkerner4833 4 місяці тому

      @@lucmehl_ak yes just listened to the stress continuum episode. Thanks for releasing them as a podcast. Easier to deal with when out hiking, cleaning the house etc.

  • @kulpinoutdoortherapy
    @kulpinoutdoortherapy 4 місяці тому

    wow!

  • @conork6743
    @conork6743 4 місяці тому

    I have received similar training in the past, probably distilled from the same organization. This is a great reminder. I’m working through the 1 year anniversary of a traumatic event at work, so this is good timing. I peculiarly like the color test. Big thanks to the teacher.

  • @4SeasonsNorth
    @4SeasonsNorth 4 місяці тому

    Luc, I appreciate your information very much and you easily make the point about risk and consequence. However I must be honest, it really troubles me that most of the skaters in your videos are not wearing helmets. You also suggest here that so-called sandwich ice, with a layer of ice on top of a layer of water with more solid ice under the water, is not consequential. Several skaters face-planted in sandwich ice here on the East Coast this winter and were quite hurt (ie facial lacerations, gruesome photos available). They could have been much more hurt had they not been wearing helmets (eg brain trauma). You and your peers are in a position to be important role models for this critical safety step and I hope you will do so. Thanks for considering. Jo

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 4 місяці тому

      Hi Jo- thanks for your comment and I appreciate your perspective! I agree that helmets are really important for ice activities. Risk management is a series of dials and sliders ... these skaters are more vulnerable without helmets so they are moving very slowly to reduce the likelihood of falling. Treating this environment as a learning opportunity, and given their skating proficiency, made it an acceptable for them to skate without helmets. I think the key is to be intentional about our safety decisions.

  • @FourOf92000
    @FourOf92000 4 місяці тому

    want to point out that one of the reasons that the scary zone is scary is because both severe consequences and rare events are _really hard_ to calculate, so you can be off on both frequency and severity by a couple orders of magnitude in either direction

  • @richardgordon-rein2148
    @richardgordon-rein2148 4 місяці тому

    What time of year did you make the trip?

  • @wickedalaska
    @wickedalaska 4 місяці тому

    This is such a fantastic delivery of education. Thanks again, Luc! ~Cyle

  • @ryanvanhorne5837
    @ryanvanhorne5837 5 місяців тому

    thanks

  • @Frigid49th
    @Frigid49th 5 місяців тому

    That’s where I live! Come raft the Tanalian river sometime!

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 5 місяців тому

      You've got the right name for it ;) I've only been out there once in the summer, and it was 25 years ago. I'd love to go back ... and to packraft the Tanalian!

  • @johnchapman2856
    @johnchapman2856 5 місяців тому

    I have lived in warm places my whole life and learning about this is so interesting!

  • @missmatina590
    @missmatina590 5 місяців тому

    Omg😮

  • @Kevin-ib3io
    @Kevin-ib3io 5 місяців тому

    Traverse from Vancouver to Skagway! That's the most ambitious trip I can imagine. What a wild stretch of country. Amazing!

  • @davidvalensi8616
    @davidvalensi8616 5 місяців тому

    Don't like it, if the ice breaks the currents could suck you under, you'll be found in the spring at the other end.

  • @Murata924
    @Murata924 5 місяців тому

    Is it safe?

  • @speakingthetruthinallthere1005
    @speakingthetruthinallthere1005 5 місяців тому

    Hey Luc, do you remember whether the woodstove at the Nurse cabin has a flattop for cooking on (for a pan to set on top)?

  • @shawnwillis767
    @shawnwillis767 6 місяців тому

    Good way to die in my state lol No thanks….

  • @authormaryanngestwicki
    @authormaryanngestwicki 6 місяців тому

    WOW!! Incredible!!

  • @deealaskalife5497
    @deealaskalife5497 6 місяців тому

    Nice Look Like Alaska

  • @jhsmit5449
    @jhsmit5449 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful images..... would have liked them even more with nature's own sounds.

    • @tessangelabeck8958
      @tessangelabeck8958 5 місяців тому

      I’m annoyed, too, by someone’s need to “enhance” with “music” HE-SHE thinks will be valued by viewers. I alternate between turning off sound or just leaving the vid entirely. Why listen to crap that is unnecessary to allow into your head! There’s no limit to crap sound effects. They don’t belong in beautiful scenery like this.

  • @laudeline5663
    @laudeline5663 6 місяців тому

    Hi Luc, I love your videos, thank you very much! While I appreciate your music selections, are there also versions available containing the original soundtrack only?

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 6 місяців тому

      it mostly depends on wind ... when there is wind the natural audio is too rough. when there isn't wind, i play more of the natural sounds. most of my wind-free clips are on instagram. @lucmehl.

    • @laudeline5663
      @laudeline5663 6 місяців тому

      Thank you, I will have a look there

  • @wickedalaska
    @wickedalaska 6 місяців тому

    Love the adventure! McGrath is on my short list.

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 6 місяців тому

      Awesome! Not many people have said that!

    • @wickedalaska
      @wickedalaska 6 місяців тому

      @@lucmehl_ak it's right behind floating the kobuk. Gotta get up there asap before everything changes dramatically up in that area.

  • @berndbegemann6798
    @berndbegemann6798 6 місяців тому

    Nice one. Do you use the HMG Porter 85 backpack?

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 6 місяців тому

      I'm using an HMG 3400 ... looks like they switched to L lately, so that must be the 55L. This is a good size for a day trip. I use the larger packs for overnighters.

  • @user-vl2ub6gg4b
    @user-vl2ub6gg4b 6 місяців тому

    Супер классно❤❤❤❤

  • @natashasedova7778
    @natashasedova7778 6 місяців тому

    No way ever ever in my life it's a lake not a ice Kating ring. No way 😮

  • @shem600
    @shem600 6 місяців тому

    Beautiful at the same time SCARY 😮😮😮

  • @jamesmckay1150
    @jamesmckay1150 6 місяців тому

    So very cool to be able to see the lakes bottom as you skate across the frozen water, just incredible!

  • @frankblangeard8865
    @frankblangeard8865 7 місяців тому

    Nice video if you mute the sound. Thumbs up.

  • @Shadow-kq4yc
    @Shadow-kq4yc 7 місяців тому

    beautiful landscape! how lucky to get to skate in such a gorgeous place, thank you for sharing!

  • @romandial
    @romandial 7 місяців тому

    cool mtns and marshes and ice

  • @fitztim
    @fitztim 7 місяців тому

    Cool

  • @1161byron
    @1161byron 7 місяців тому

    I’ve only skated little ponds,this would be a dream come true

  • @seancurtispatrick
    @seancurtispatrick 7 місяців тому

    That looked like an amazing trip! Nice work! :)

  • @AperfectUsername23
    @AperfectUsername23 7 місяців тому

    POV: that one monster under the ocean: *I have sensed a disturbance in the force*

  • @clementsartoni
    @clementsartoni 7 місяців тому

    So cool ! Ty for the video :)

  • @onelittlelamb4030
    @onelittlelamb4030 7 місяців тому

    When my job is to learn how to skate through Alaska…

  • @marnieclifford8604
    @marnieclifford8604 7 місяців тому

    How do they know its safe? Theyre screwed if they fall through

    • @lucmehl_ak
      @lucmehl_ak 7 місяців тому

      I teach ice travel and rescue in Alaska ... we test ice strength with an ice probe ... you can see them in the video. And if someone falls through ... we've practiced self and team rescue. courses.thingstolucat.com/ice-rescue-training

  • @richardwhiting3216
    @richardwhiting3216 7 місяців тому

    I would love to do that