SOTA Safety Tips Index

 All The Ham Ninja’s SOTA Safety Tips Index

SOTA Safety Tips is a weekly series of quick tips to remember to improve safety of the hobby.  This was inspired by the SoCal SOTA group’s meetings on this topic and will be sourced from my own and others' experience.  Don’t forget, you also need to support your group and others with this knowledge.  I’ll keep these as short as possible.  Send feedback to safetytips@HamNinja.com.

Below is an Index of Tips Published to date.

• TIP #1 - Bring Plenty Of Water
  
  
• TIP #2 - Know Your Limits
  
  
• TIP #3 - Have a First Aid Kit and The Training To Go With

• TIP #4 - Check the weather

See Also

• My Complete Article on Safety
  
  
• Stop going out unprepared! (a note from the SAR perspective), by N6JFD.

More to come...

My Experience

I am not a safety or health professional, doctor, or other expert, just an amateur, be careful out there and do your research.  I’ve activated 817+ summits since Oct of 2017 in Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and several other states.  Over that time I’ve hiked 2,540+ miles and climbed 626,000+ feet.  I don’t have skills beyond class 3 hiking and really “scrambouldering” and light snow pack are my upper skill limits.  I was an Army medic and was a certified EMT.  I have received training on desert survival, and recurrent first Aid training in other roles.  Remember: First Aid is a perishable skill.

You can contact me at safetytips@HamNinja.com.