Many things in life can appear easy, and people can fool themselves, into believing they have what it takes. Equally companies all too often can become complacent. All touring/activity companies are not the same! All Guides are not the same!
The difference? The difference is the true professionism of the staff, and the genuine Duty of Care adopted by the company.
All My Newfoundland Adventures (MNA) sports guides have a documented minimum level of training, including a valid "Canadian Avalanche Association" Avalanche Awareness Certificate, and have training in Ice Rescue (and the equipment to carry it out!).
At MNA, we believe understanding risk is critical, so anyone working near avalanche terrain (Back Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Ice climbing, or any mountain activity, (which includes all areas around Corner Brook and Humber Valley & Gros Morne), must have a valid CAA Avalanche Awareness Certificate (at the very minimum). This is a two day course which touches on a broad range of topics, like Avalanche Transceiver use, search and rescue, snow stability tests, weather dynamics, snow metamorphism, and lots more. At a very minimum, anyone guiding for us must be able to recognise and avoid avalanche terrain.
On your activity with us, we'll take you to places that give you the extra special expereince that meets what you're looking for. But what is something goes wrong? Without full and proper training how can you, and the tour company, be sure that it will not become a major incident? Going snowmobiling with a guide that does not know how to handle a serious accident victim .... good luck! ... think before you book!
My Newfoundland Adventures operates with a 70 page Risk Assesment Plan, which manages and controls the risks that the tour is exposed to. We can't stop all risks, but we can prepare for them.
As an example of what could happen .... My Newfoundland Adventiures provides accredited training for SIRUS Wilderness First Aid, on one such course in 2006 the trainnees had rafted to an isolated spot and the instructor asked for a "victim" to require mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The "victim" lay down in front of the other six trainees ... but quickly it became apparrent that the course "victim" had become a real life potential casualty and had taken seriously. Marty, the My Newfoundland Adventure instructor evaluated the casualty, and establish that he was in a Diabetic Coma. Emergency Services were called, but the casualty had constant CPR whilst being correctly placed in a raft and rowed across the Humber River, to the waiting ambulance. What would have happened if the guide did not have the right training? Are you trusting a guide whose day job is a bar-tender?
Come and find out more, at
My Newfoundland Adventures,
The Adventure Center,
located in Humber Valley, at the base of
Marble Mountain,
Steady Brook, Newfoundland,
Canada.
Tel: +1 709 686 2222
Tel: +1 709 686 2222
Email info@mynewfoundland.ca
Located at the base of Marble Mountain
Steady Brook, Humber Valley,
Newfoundland