High adventure
High adventure is a type of outdoor experience.[1] It typically is meant to include activities like backpacking, hiking, kayaking or canoeing. It may also include mountaineering, rock climbing, mountain biking, orienteering, hang gliding, paragliding and hot air ballooning.[2]
High adventure in Scouting
Scout leaders may offer traditional canoeing or backpacking high-adventure programs, but high adventure often transcends typical Scouting activities. High adventure activities may include:
- All-terrain vehicles
- Aquatics Lifesaving
- Backpacking
- Camping
- Canoeing
- Caving
- Climbing / Rappelling
- Project COPE / Ropes Course
- Expedition Planning
- Extreme Sports
- Geocaching
- First Aid
- Fishing
- Historical reenactment/Living history
- Horsemanship
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Leave No Trace
- Motorboating
- Mountain Biking
- Orienteering
- Personal Watercraft
- Sailing
- Search & Rescue
- Scuba Diving
- Shooting Sports/Archery
- Snorkeling
- Space Exploration
- Whitewater Rafting
- Wilderness Survival
- Winter Sports and Camping
- Zip-Line
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See also
- Order of the Arrow High Adventure
- Outward Bound
- Outdoor education
- Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America)
- Ten essential items of gear
Related activities:
- Thru-hiking, hiking a trail from end to end
- Hillwalking
- List of long-distance footpaths
- Hiking equipment
- River trekking
- Rogaining
References
- "High Adventure". gscnc.org.
- "High Adventure". BSA.
External links
- "Outdoor Adventures Team". Boy Scouts of America.
- "Order of the Arrow High Adventure". Boy Scouts of America.
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