The Basics

Company Name: Backcountry Pulse
Location: Based in Eldorado Springs, CO // Newly incorporated in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. BCP en Español for local mountain guides, taught by locals coming soon in Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru!
Founded: 2018
Services: Wilderness medicine education certification training, BIPOC WFR scholarship programs, and Instructor mentorship programs.

Courses include: Wilderness First Aid (WFA), Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA), Wilderness First Responder (WFR), Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician Upgrade (WEMT), Wilderness Professional Rescuer (WPR), and Rock Rescue Responder (RRR).
Social: Website // Instagram // Facebook
Claim to Fame: Backcountry Pulse is the first and only Latina-owned wilderness medicine education company in the USA! We serve under-represented groups in under-resourced communities. See our initiatives and our partners.

The Culture

The best thing about working here is:

Working alongside passionate individuals who create all-encompassing classrooms where we can equally learn as much as we teach.

When we’re not working, we’re:

Learning, growing, moving, and resting while prioritizing mental and physical wellbeing.

What we’re reading:

An eclectic medley of course evaluations, topo maps, cloud patterns, song lyrics, or clinical research.

What we’re listening to:

Our partners, our team, and our students, and the local communities we serve. Plus, the clanking of climbing gear, the biting of an ice screw, the clunk of trail runners hitting the dirt, and the gleeful excitement of spending time with those we care about in places we strive to protect.

If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:

Title: Don’t Step on Sharp Objects During Video Calls

Storyline: Wide-eyed Chilena wants to disrupt the wilderness medicine education industry and starts a company from her home but *plot twist* there are twins running around…and Legos on the floor.

Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:

Just as our ecosystem requires the diversity of microorganisms, plants, and animals, our physical spaces require a multitude of colors, cultures, backgrounds, identities, and ability levels to grow and thrive. We believe that cultivating inclusive classroom spaces and mentorship opportunities with instructors that share a diverse set of intersectionalities is needed for belonging and representation to be supported for the long haul.

Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:

• We will be the catalyst in changing the face of wilderness medicine.

• We will have inclusive patient care guidelines published that will be integrated as a wilderness medicine industry standard.

• We will support aspiring or current guides from countries around the globe to access certification classes in their language by members of their own communities.

• We will explore the intersection between austere medicine and global health community-based programs to support low-resources clinics in the LATAM countries we serve.

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