August 1, 2018
2018 Photo Contest
The winning images from our 2018 Wilderness Medicine Section Photo Contest
Winner:
17k Camp high on a Denali NPS patrol as the team physician
Brian M Scheele, MD
Photo #53
Honorable Mention:
Wilderness medicine class trying to ignore the scenery and focus on the patient. Refugio Bonatti, Val Ferret, Italy
John Dietrich Anderson, MD, FACEP
Photo #1
Gallery of Images
Catch a slide show of stunning landscapes and thrilling wilderness adventures some our members embarked on this past year! Over 90 photos were submitted this year. Contest criteria: Any image from a wilderness setting is accepted, but extra points are provided for photos that showcase wilderness medicine.
Start the slideshow by clicking on any one of the images below.
Wilderness medicine class trying to ignore the scenery and focus on the patient. Refugio Bonatti, Val Ferret, Italy
Fine mountain running and fine espresso in the Italian Alps. Col Sapin, Courmayeur, Italy
Little kids playing on little boulders and getting ready for the big mountains. Buttermilk Boulders, Bishop, CA
Mt. Rundle Summit - Banff
Sunbeams On Water - Glacier NP
Waterfalls And Wild flowers - Glacier NP
Wildlife - RMNP
Cathedral formations on Kauai's Napali Coast
Selfoss waterfall in Iceland, ripping after a heavy rain
Skogafoss waterfall in Iceland
The east rim of Crater Lake, with Mt. Thielson in the distance
Unknown mirror lake in northeast Iceland, 30 minutes outside Akureyri
Arctic Crossroads
Emergency Response Transport- the 1950s Are Back
Summit Station, Greenland- A Polar Medic's Domain
The Mobile Science Facility and the Moon
Hiking in Albuquerque, NM
Sequoia National Park
UCF 2018 Southeast MedWAR
Conducting dysnatremia research using iStat’s at sunrise on the day after the long march, an 80km stage of the 4 Deserts Racing the Planet Series race in Namibia
The wildly exposed classic final Fairy Tale Traverse pitch on the direct route of the Northeast Ridge of the Pinnacle, in Huntington’s ravine on Mt. Washington
Grazing mule deer finds the light in Yosemite
La Ruta de los Conquistadores, mountain bike race across Costa Rica
Mountain Goat up close and personal - Glacier National Park
My son's first mountain bike race - the Carson City 15 - Carson City, NV
Potential Wilderness medicine emergency event underwater
California poppies
Coming storm over Lost Lake
Monastery Beach
Night Jump
Serenity
Feel the rush
Forest Bathing/Shinrin - Yoku
Set your heart free
Slow down and just BE
Then sings my soul
Diving deeper into the slot canyon
Ice Trees in the White Mountains
Stormy sea kayaking
The colors of Antelope Canyon
White out backcountry extraction
Baboon family takes a walk in the woods (Lake Manyara NP in Tanzania)
Cheetah kitten (Serengeti NP in Tanzania)
Kilimanjaro summit at sunrise
King of the jungle (Serengeti NP in Tanzania)
Lone jaguar at sunset (Serengeti NP in Tanzania)
Carlsbad Caverns, NM
Grand County, CO - Moose sighting"
Panoramic from Guadalupe Peak (8,750ft) - Texas Highpoint - Guadalupe National Park - TX
Panoramic from Quandry Peak (14,265ft) - CO
Sete Cidades - Sao Miguel, Azores
Rock Canyon Southern Utah
17k Camp high on a Denali NPS patrol as the team physician
An accidental snapshot of the view while ascending Denali, the highest mountain in North America
National Park Service mountaineering ranger 14k Camp during the climbing season
NPS VIP Mountaineering Ranger while on SAR patrol earned his turns at 15,000 feet at Denali National Park and Preserve
Med student Ava-sim
New Jersey pinelands
Oswego lilies
Tellu-ride
Lake Martin, AL
Close Kayaking
dlavaLAND
Frosted glacier
Rings
Snowflakes share
2 Humpback Whales in the Bering Sea, The Aleutian Islands
Humpback Whales in the Bering Sea, The Aleutian Islands
Jellyfish in Captains Bay, The Aleutian Islands
Relationship Goals - Eagles - Unalaska island - the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
View over Dutch Harbor, The Aleutians
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Bison at Tallgrass Prairie
Hawksbill Crag
Mittens at Moument Valley
North Rim at Sunset
North Rim
Badlands National Park, SD
Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Mount Washington, NH
ew Brunswick, Canada
Wind Caves National Park, SD
Cimarron Canyon Stream
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
Lover's Leap
Overcast at White Sands
Prairie Sunrise
Actually taken by my 13 year old daughter of a room with a view and a random yellow bike during more physician wellness - Senja Norway
Enjoying the view and a break as the doctor on a trip to Ecuador at 14,000 feet with 24 middle school kids
Hoping to not have to do any wilderness medicine has my husband pretends the iceberg is a bike park. Palmer Alaska
Just hoping for no wilderness medicine at this point - Senja Norway
Loving the hard tracks so I could make my shift later that day. Physician wellness at its best. Palmer, Alaska