Most courses are five hours each
BACKPACKING
Our goal is to equip the participants with a wide range of skills for anything from simple hiking to a multi-day backpacking trip. We will talk about outdoor safety, types of boots and backpacks, how to pack for different trips, tent skills and camp skills. A short hike will be performed at the end of the session.
Cost: $70
RAPPELLING
This is the first step to every rope activity. Starting with safety equipment and procedures, rappelling sessions will introduce you to the very first steps of the rope works and equipment necessary to install a rappelling line, teach you how to perform a safe descent on a rope and how to render safety to other rappellers. This is a two session class.
INCLUDES: Ground school training, equipment use, and Rappelling jumps.
Cost: $130
KAYAKING
As part of the Exploring skills, Kayaking is done with inflatable kayaks that are lightweight, super portable, easy to set up and clean up. Inflatable kayaks are transported in individual backpacks with everything that you will need to perform a successful deploy. This is a two session class.
INCLUDES:Training, equipment use and kayaking trip.
Cost: $130
SNORKELING
This is a 5 hours class where you will practice the proper use of snorkeling equipment through our step by step "learn to play" approach. Some water survival techniques will be part of this class. This is a one session class.
INCLUDES: Equipment use (mask, snorkel, BCD*, and fins), snorkeling instruction, and practice
*BCD: Buoyancy Compensation Device (or PFD)
Cost: $70
ORIENTEERING
We will provide you with compass and a map, that is what you are going to need in order to find the right path in the field. We will set up several control points in the field that you will have to find, check them and navigate back to the finish point. Orienteering sessions will go over simple use of compass and map plus other skills that allow you to determine distance, recognize terrain features, and use the stars as a method for orienteering. Orienteering practice will take you into the woods on a hand on practice. be prepared to walk. This is a 5 hours activity.
INCLUDES: Training, Equipment use (Maps and compass), and on the field Orienteering practice.
Cost: $70
MOUNTAIN BIKING (MTB)
This class is about Mountain biking trail rides, we talk about the preparations before you hit the trail, and practicing those mountain biking skills and difficult areas in the trails necessary to have fun while you are riding on the trails.
We will be riding and learning. You need someone to ride with? We can help you with that. This is a 5 hours activity.
Cost: $70
ROPE ACCESS
Taking our Rappelling sessions will open the door for you to a whole different world of rope techniques. Rope Access sessions will teach you the rope works on the X-Y-Z axis, going down as well as up on a rope, and traveling from point A to point B while high up. You will feel the adrenaline all the time. This is a two session class.
INCLUDES: Training, safety and ropes equipment use, practice of learned techniques.
Cost: $130
AND MUCH MORE...
Bushcrafting and wilderness survival communications, camping , nocturnal activities and Invasive Fish Operations are some other activities that we add to our regular sessions.
BUSHCRAFTING
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNICATIONS
Necessary skills to survive and stay in the wilderness. You will use multi- purpose tools (survival knives, machetes, hatchets/tomahawks, axes) to adapt the surrounding environment to fit your basic survival needs in camping or multi days backpacking trips.
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMUNICATIONS
The nature of the outdoor activities will put us in conditions where the only link for communication will be the radio. Orienteering, Mountain Biking, backpacking, kayaking and rope techniques could include radio use.
CAMPING
INVASIVE FISH OPERATION
INVASIVE FISH OPERATION
Our camping activities involve many different skills that will make your camping experience better such as type of backpacks and their configurations, boots and equipment selection and tents tricks.
INVASIVE FISH OPERATION
INVASIVE FISH OPERATION
INVASIVE FISH OPERATION
More advance activities. Skill needed for this activities are basic kayaking, swimming, orienteering and buschcrafting. The Spring-Summer operation would include paddling for miles, land raid and nocturnal maneuvers. Invasive Fish Operations are access to remote area accessed by water. Be prepared to get wet.
RAPPELLING CLASSES
SAFETY, ADRENALIN, AND FUN
Everybody has thought about ropes at some point in their life and has wondered how to use them, now you will have the opportunity to find out. Rappelling, entry level, will take you from the very first steps of rope work all the way to performing a descent from high angle on a rope. Yes, you will be suspended and in complete control. The participants will learn how to descend on a rope, safety while engaging in high angle works, how to set up a basic rappelling line. Everyone will make several descents and will learn how to clean up, but overall the participants will have a lot of fun! This is a 5 hours each, two-sessions course.
2 Saturdays, Dec 2nd and 9th, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. $130 per person for both sessions. Sign up below. The course will be taught in the Northern Virginia.
What to bring the first day:
Comfortable long pants, sneakers or hiking boots, bandana or equivalent, long sleeve t-shirt, and water.
