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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Backcountry Lifeline Shares MTB First Aid Tips

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bonnie McDonald, co-founder of Backcountry Lifeline, talks about the group’s mission, which is to provide mountain bikers and event organizers with the tools and knowledge to make riding safer. We’ll cover some basic first aid tips and strategies for backcountry emergencies, and talk about the level of risk various types of mountain bike rides can pose.

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0:00.0

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0:08.3

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0:16.3

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0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today I'll be talking with

0:25.6

Bonnie McDonald, co-founder of Backcountry Lifeline. Her group was formed to provide tools and

0:31.7

resources to make mountain biking more safe and hopefully today she's going to be able to share

0:36.1

some tips that could come in handy

0:38.4

on the trail someday. Thanks for joining us, Bonnie. Thanks so much for having me. So I want to start

0:42.7

by asking you what exactly is Backcountry Lifeline? So Backcountry Lifeline is an organization

0:49.2

that as you said in your introduction works with the mountain bike community to basically help them

0:55.9

be safer on the trails. So we work with riders, race directors, and event organizers to help

1:02.9

them be prepared in the event of an emergency. So we give them tools and resources and training

1:08.7

so that they can do what they can to help other riders

1:12.5

when accidents happen. Yeah, it sounds like your organization has a little bit of a different

1:17.9

focus than others too that might be providing like first aid instruction and things like

1:24.1

that, whereas you're going more toward like race organizers and event organizers?

1:28.8

Is that fair to say?

1:30.1

That's fair to say how it started for sure.

1:32.6

Our organization started from the Enduro race scene.

1:37.4

That being said, since its founding, we've definitely taken it to a lot of schools and clubs and pretty much any any type of

1:47.5

mountain biking group, be it just a bunch of friends riding together or a little bit more

1:52.6

of a formalized organization. Yeah. So what, I mean, what led you to co-found the organization?

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