Outdoor Skills Training: Backcountry and Wilderness Courses

If you want in-the-field education on how to live safely in the backcountry — whether on a snow-whipped peak, a balmy beach, or a river-threaded wilderness valley — we have an outdoor skills journey-workshop for you. From rafting to rock-climbing, horsepacking to backpacking, fly-fishing to teamwork-fostering, we’ll give you the outdoor skills and training you need in the wild — and we’ll give you the chance to put those skills into practice. Ranging from 9 to 135 days, our wilderness workshop-tours impart the technical and experiential lessons needed to enable participants to live and travel responsibly and efficiently in challenging terrain; our hands-on, learn-by-doing approach means that our graduates get the skills they need to be competent, responsible wilderness travelers long after their course is over. With “classrooms” ranging from Alaska to India, and Patagonia to the Pacific Northwest, we offer a variety of outdoor skills training and experiences. Adventure Collection members also offer outdoor skills-teaching trips in Eastern Africa and Southern Africa.

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