Overview

Adventure Based Leadership (ABL) is an exciting outdoor learning and leadership program for 13-18 year old students. This course seeks to teach wilderness and leadership skills through hands on learning. No experience is required. If you have experience, we can expand your knowledge.

Learning Objectives

Prepare to discover that you are capable of much more than you ever imagined while you practice decision-making, problem-solving, and managing group dynamics in a wilderness environment.  This course aims to sharpen students’ “soft skills,” such as troubleshooting and making decisions under pressure, so that they leave with tremendous confidence. Additionally, this course will give students survival skills that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Topics covered in this course include:  

• Wilderness navigation with a map and compass

• Planning and leading wilderness hikes

• Backcountry safety and survival skills

• Reacting to and dealing with wilderness emergencies

• Wilderness first aid skills

• Avalanche terrain avoidance

• Rappelling

• Rock climbing

• And much more