Backcountry 4x4 Preparedness

Backcountry 4x4 Preparedness

The Colorado backcountry can be unpredictable and challenging.  Learn how to properly prepare for safe and fun exploration, avoid common mistakes, and what to take with you.  During this class we will cover the following topics and share the gear and tools we regularly use in the field: 

Planning tools and stategies

- Best preactices for exploring the backcountry

- Research and mapping resources (digital and analog)

72-hour survival kits

- 10 essentials

- What you need, what's nice to have

First aid kits

Tools and repair kits

- Hand tools

- Tire repair kits

- Expedient field repair

Recovery gear selection, evaluation, and recommendations

- Kinetic ropes

- Hard and soft shackles

- Tree and tow straps

- Winches and winch lines

- Pulley blocks

- Line locks

- Hi Lift Jack

* NOTE:  this is not a recovery class!  We will show and discuss the merits of various gear along with some best practices, but recovery demonstrations and skills will be covered in a separate class.

While this class emphasizes tools and gear for 4x4 enthusiasts, it is also relevant for anyone who traverses remote roads while getting to/from hiking and biking trails, or simply driving in inclement weather where the possibility of getting stuck or stranded exist (blizzards and heavy snow events being prime examples in Colorado).

We offer a 50% discout fo  members of the public safety community and their families - contact us at sierramechanica@gmail.com for a discount code.