Orion Medical Consulting

11/26/2025

Exciting News from Rugged Mountain Outfitters!

We're thrilled to announce that Rugged Mountain Outfitters is teaming up with my good friend Jimmy Gruenewald and his wife Aimee at Orion Medical Consulting to bring you an incredible new course in 2026!

This partnership is a natural fit. Jimmy and I are both SOF veterans bringing our unique expertise together to create something exceptional for our military, corporate, and backcountry communities. Jimmy's distinguished career with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), combined with his experience as a Physician Assistant and his work in wilderness medicine instruction, brings an unmatched level of knowledge to this collaboration. His background includes tactical and civilian emergency medicine, wilderness medicine, and extensive field experience that translates directly to real-world backcountry scenarios.

We're developing an integrated training program that combines backcountry horsemanship with wilderness medical skills. This isn't just another course. It's about true self-sufficiency in remote environments. Whether you're an outfitter, guide, hunter, search and rescue personnel, or someone who spends serious time in the backcountry, this program will prepare you to handle both the logistics of traveling with pack animals and the medical emergencies that can happen when help is hours or days away.

Full details will be rolling out over the next couple of months. This is going to be something special.

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Orion Medical Consulting
Jimmy Gruenewald

09/10/2025

Looking for ways to expand your outdoor skills? Check out these opportunities from the DNR and partners to gain hunting, shooting and fishing experience.

These programs are open to the public and cater to a variety of skill levels, schedules and interests.

Hunting And Shooting Programs
– Sept. 13: Intro to Shooting Sports, Bill Cook Chapter of the Izaak Walton League (Stevens Point)
– Sept. 16: Learn To Hunt Squirrel, Cherokee Marsh (Madison)
– Sept. 16: Learn to Hunt Deer, Multiple locations in Dane & Sauk counties (Madison area)
– Sept. 20: Pass It On - Outdoor Mentors: Youth Waterfowl Hunt (Statewide)
– Sept. 21: Deer Processing Class, Mirror Lake State Park (Baraboo)
– Sept. 21: Learn To Cook Wild Game: Venison, Mirror Lake State Park (Baraboo)
– Sept. 24: Learn to Cook Wild Game: Squirrel & Rabbit, Mackenzie Center (Poynette)
– Sept. 27: Viola Sportsman's Club Learn to Hunt, Viola Sportsman Club (Viola)
– Sept. 27: Deer Processing - Barron County Outdoor Family Field Day (Rice Lake)
– Oct. 1: Learn to Hunt Deer on Public Land, Waukesha County
– Oct. 3: Deer Processing Class, Leach Natural Resource Center (Berlin)
– Oct. 4: Dodge County Pheasant Hunt, Cackle Creek Hunt Club (Ashippun)
– Oct. 13: Learn to Cook Wild Game: Gamebirds, Mackenzie Center (Poynette)
– Oct. 19: Learn to Hunt Pheasant, Bloomington Sportsman's Club (Bloomington)
– Oct. 24: Learn to Hunt Waterfowl, Crex Meadows Wildlife Area (Grantsburg)
– Oct. 25: Learn to Hunt Small Game with Dogs, Sandhill Wildlife Area (Pittsville)
– Oct. 25: Learn to Hunt Squirrels, Stitzer Sportsmen’s Club (Stitzer)
– Nov. 5: Learn to Cook Wild Game: Venison, Mackenzie Center (Poynette)
– Dec. 6: Deer Processing Class, Crex Meadows Wildlife Area (Grantsburg)

Fishing Program
– Sept. 14: Learn to Fish, Mirror Lake State Park (Baraboo)

Learn more and find instructions to register for classes on our Events calendar: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/events?type=fishing,hunting,trapping,shooting

Make sure to check back often throughout the season – new events are added as they are scheduled.

Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

09/09/2025

We’re all set up and surrounded by amazing professionals ready to transform your health and wellness so you can stay in the hunt! Come check us out! Seugnet DeBaucheJimmy Gruenewald

09/09/2025

Staff Sgt. David Quay is the Military Times Soldier of the Year.

11/30/2024

Please support veteran-owned small businesses this hunting and holiday season by equipping your favorite hunter with an Orion Medical Outdoor First Aid Kit!

04/13/2024

04/13/2024

👏🏼 excited!!

It’s that time again! All across Wisconsin, sturgeon are preparing to make their spawning runs upstream.

Whether you’re in the Chippewa Valley area, over by Shawano or somewhere in between, you can see these prehistoric fish spawning along rocky shorelines.

You may even see DNR staff spawning these fish to raise in our hatcheries or in other states.

This early warm-up will likely have these fish starting their migration a little earlier than last year. We’ll post updates on the sturgeon spawning webpage: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/sturgeon/SturgeonSpawning.html

Keep in mind that once the spawn starts, it may not last long. Check the webpage frequently for updates, or you might just miss them.

04/09/2024

Gear up for the youth turkey hunt 🦃 by packing your life-saving Orion Medical Aid Kit!
As we share our love for the outdoors and the fundamentals of hunting with our youth, let us also pass on the tradition of preparedness and self-rescue. We can teach our children to help themselves, especially when a life is on the line!
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03/05/2024

Really great read! Come check us out to learn how to prepare yourself to self-rescue after a fall or other fatal injuries.

There are roughly 240 deaths annually in US national parks and other lands managed by the National Park Service. From drowning to heat illness to homicide, here's what causes it.