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ADVANCED Outdoor Leadership Course

structured... to help you learn.

exciting... to create a powerful experience.

This trip is all about having fun and enjoying the positive atmosphere that a group expedition offers. We bring people together to enjoy the backcountry, while making new friends and developing leadership skills for life.

Choose our 14-Day Advanced Course if you want to make a giant leap in self-confidence or turn a positive direction in life. You value a learning experience and still want to have have a boatload of fun. We take you into the heart of the High Sierra through Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. We'll find bears foraging for food, marmots hanging out on alpine tundra, hawks soaring over steep canyons, and fish swimming in crystal clear alpine lakes. On this epic adventure, you'll cover all the basics of leadership and fine-tune advanced skills that help you develop your own unique leadership style.

The advanced course offers the best of “experiential learning”. Here, the students will hike sections of the John Muir Trail on this 80-mile trek through the heart of the High Sierra. Students will concentrate on effective communication in order to lead their team in group activities. They will learn how to manage risk by calculating real risk factors. They will also learn to make decisions based on group dynamics and environmental risks. Here, they lead critical segments of the expedition. With each of 5 different activities throughout the trip, the students will reinforce their understanding of specific skills and earn valuable experience leading.

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Being out in the backcountry with friends can be one of the most powerful experiences you'll ever have. The wilderness allows us a chance to step back in time and discover a refreshing sense of our natural being and develop confidence to face the world with strength and tackle everyday stresses. It helps you find your flow.

Empower yourself. Join a team of students this summer and build real leadership skills for life.

Outdoor Leadership Courses

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ACTIVITIES

Wilderness Hide and Seek: the students will be divided into two teams. The first team will hike to a predetermined but hidden location in the backcountry making note of their surroundings, course, and landmarks. This team will also place flags along the route that the second team will retrieve. Given a 2-way radio, the team will have three minutes to effectively communicate their position and flagged waypoints to the second team. Without a map, the second team will follow this instruction and other clues provided by the instructor on where they should go to find the other team. They will have 3 separate opportunities to use the radio for 20-second questions. The objective is to retrieve all the flags and find the location of the first team. Each flag retrieved is worth a certain piece of High Sierra Adventures gear, which the students will receive at the end of the trip.

Leadership Games: the student will lead his or her team in finding ways to win challenging games. Most of these games will challenge the students by limiting their ability to talk in order to solve a problem. The students will focus on other means of effective communication and learn the importance of being direct and real with each other.

Blindfolded Adventure: each student will be blindfolded and guided by a partner while walking on a given path. This activity will encourage the students to trust one another to effectively communicate the inherent dangers that arise on the trail. Learning to trust another team member can be just as critical for success as being able to communicate a plan or course of action to reach a common goal.

First Aid Seminar: the student will learn basic techniques of first aid. Having the knowledge and ability to preserve life is a powerful tool you will use time and time again. In this seminar, we teach you everything you need to know in order to quickly and effectively respond to any emergency first aid situation. We also teach you advanced techniques to improvise emergency first aid in the backcountry. There's no better feeling in the world than one you get when someone thanks you for helping them through a life-threatening emergency.

Student-Led Trip Elements

• Morning and evening Stretch Leader

• Navigation Coordinator (works with instructor to find plausible route for the day)

• Cook of the Day (helps the instructor prepare meals and explain nutrition)

• Team Leader (encourages expedition behavior and facilitates group development)

• Risk Manager (provides input on each decision pertaining to safety)

• Break Leader (decides when breaks are appropriate – depending on group dynamics and awareness)

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PRICING

Group Rates

7-8 per group

4-6 per group

2-3 per group

1 individual

14-Day

$655 each

$750 each

$800 each

$950

The prices above reflect the cost for each individual in a group booking. For example, if a group of 8 books a trip, then the cost for each person in that group would be $655. However, if one person books a trip alone, the cost for that individual is $950. So do yourself a favor and rally up a crew of friends for this excellent adventure!

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