High Adventure Training

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High Adventure Training

• Mount Diablo-Silverado Council Adult Leader
  Training.

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Why do High Adventure?

• Where Scout Skills are USED
• Opportunities for Youth Leadership
• Goals for Annual Unit Planning
• Retention of Older Scouts
• Retention of Adult Leaders!

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Why Training?

• High Adventure happens in remote locations, help
  is far away
• Mistakes inconvenience, injury, death
• No place to start a learning curve
• Bring em back alive!

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MDSC High Adventure Training

• HAT Core
• Basic Backpacking 
• Climbing
• Cycling
• Okpik
• Paddle Sports 
• Wilderness First Aid / CPR
• http//www.bsa-mdsc.org/hat.php

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HAT Core

• The essentials of all High Adventure treks
• Taught twice a year, January and September
• Covers common skills and techniques required for
  any High Adventure Activity.

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Basic Backpacking

• Skills and techniques for planning and leading
  backpacking treks.
• Course topics cover material specific to
  backpacking activities
• One day of indoor training, one weekend outdoor
  practical

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Basic Backpacking

• Where can you go?
• Sugar Pine Lake
• Yosemite Badger Pass or Dewey Point.
• Two Sentinels near Kirwood
• Big Sur
• Philmont!

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Climbing

• A certificate of training as a BSA Climbing
  Instructor good for 2 years and a letter that
  authorizes you to be a Climb on Safely Instructor
  good for 1 year will be issued to adults upon
  successful completion of the course.
• One evening of indoor training, one weekend
  practical, one evening followup

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Cycling

• Covers skills and techniques for planning and
  leading a successful cycling outing.
• One evening indoor, one weekend outdoor
  practical.

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OKPIK (Cold Weather)

• Covers skills and techniques for planning and
  leading cold weather outings. One day of indoor
  training, one weekend practical

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OKPIK

• Where can you go?
• Two Sentinels
• Mt. Shasta
• Mt. Whitney
• Alaska

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Paddlesports

• Covers skills and techniques for planning and
  leading a successful paddling outing.
• One evening indoor training, one weekend
  practical, one evening followup

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Paddlesports

• Where can you go?
• Lake Del Valle, Folsom Reservoir
• American River, Russian River, Tuolumne River,
  Klamath River, Colorado River, Snake River,.
• Monterey Bay, Elkhorn Slough, Point Reyes,
  Tomales Bay

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Paddlesports

• A new program The Path of the Paddle Progressive
  Paddlesports Award
• Six different ways to get paddling
• http//www.bsa-mdsc.org/pathofpaddle.php

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Wilderness First Aid

• Recognize and avoid wilderness hazards and do
  first aid outdoors in remote environments.
• Wilderness First Aid Certification by the
  American Safety Health Institute valid for 3
  years.
• This course is open to all registered Scouts
  (13 and First Class) and Scouters.
• Two-day (one weekend) course

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Wilderness First Aid

• Where can you go with WFA?
• Anywhere.
• Required for BSA High Adventure Bases
• Do you really want to be three days away from the
  road with two band-aids and a bottle of tylenol?

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CPR

• CPR Certification by the American Red Cross
• is valid for 2 years
• Separate from WFA, usually preceding Friday night
• Open to all registered Scouts (15 and First
  Class) and Scouters.

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Training

• Good Judgment is the result of Experience
• Experience is the result of Poor Judgment
• Build your good judgment from our trainers
  experience!
• Share your experiences be one of us!

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HIGH ADVENTURE TRAINING

• Dont leave home without it!