Brave enough to parachute into a rain forest to lend medical aid? Jesse at Treknologies has an idea:
In return for your services RAM will offer the adventure of a lifetime. Parachuting into the middle of the rain forest and providing emergency medicine (or support services for our readers who fancy themselves in the MacGyver role), and then hiking, canoing or 4x4ing it back out of the country is a common experience. For those not experienced in skydiving RAM now also offers training through the nonprofit school called “Airdrop Assist”.
That reminds me, someday I have to sign up for a trail crew.
If you don’t want to travel quite as far, there are opportunities to trail crew with these relatively local (to the Bay Area) organizations:
Pine Ridge Association – http://www.coepark.org/pra.html
Ventana Wilderness Alliance – http://www.ventanawild.org/
Stanislaus Wilderness Volunteers – http://www.snfv.org/
High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew – http://www.trailcrew.org/
If you want a sense of what it’s like to do that, listen here.