| Day Hikes Day hikes are a safe, easy way to gain the skills you will need to stay safe in the wild--all while learning about the natural and social history of the area. You will learn about the 10 Essentials, map and compass, trip planning, risk management, and staying found. Your Guide will lend you a kit with some of the Ten Essentials, and you will hike +/- 7 miles while learning about Olympic National Park. Trips do not leave every day, so Reserve Your Spot Today! |
Backpacking Backpacking sweeps the backpacker into the wild world of wilderness with all its grandeur and intensity. Backpackers can hike for almost as many days and almost as far as they want: for example, from Staircase in the southeast corner of the park to the Grand Valley in the northeast, from the Dosewallips in the east to Quinault in the west, or from Elwah in the north to Sol Duc in the west. Consider these routes for your ultimate wildnerness experience. Then Reserve Your Spot! |
| Leave No Trace (LNT) Trainings Leave No Trace is the national standard for outdoor recreation ethics from a conservation perspective. The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics has established two main basic trainings in LNT: Awareness Workshops and Trainer Courses. Awareness Workshops last only a couple hours and offer little or no outdoor training. Trainer Courses are an intensive overnight experience with some backpacking. Reserve Your Spot for the course that's right for you. |
Scouting Guide and owner Jason Bausher is an Eagle Scout, Vigil Honor recipient, and is Wood Badge-trained. He can advise your troop about 50-miler hikes, the Leave No Trace Awareness Award, and merit badges such as Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, and Climbing. Jason can also serve as a liaison with the National Park Service to organize work parties or service projects in Olympic National Park. PLUS: Grays Harbor Boy Scouts receive FREE TRAININGS! Reserve Time for Your Program. |
| Service Tourism on the Olympic Peninsula will only last if we work to conserve the resource by doing trailwork, raising money for political action, and by teaching wildness to the generation to whom we hand over the earth. Sign Up Today to do or give what you can for the preservation of our children's earth. Where are your talents? Clearing trails? Educating National Park visitors about Leave No Trace ethics and practices? Raising money from friends, family, and business associates? Leading Boy or Girl Scouts? YOU CAN HELP!!! |
Mountain Seminars Do the mountains, rivers, and glaciers of Olympic National Park merely form one big playground, or is wilderness essential to our Being as embodied Beings in the world? Jason Bausher works on questions such as this in his environmental philosophy, and he shares his research in mountain seminars. He received his master's degree in theology from Yale University and is finishing an M.A. while in a doctoral program in philosophy. Check out a few of the seminars. Don't see your burning "big questions" being asked on this list? Email Olympic Mountain School for a custom program. |
We say that Olympic National Park is "three parks in one:" coastal beaches, rainforest, and rainshadow. Sixty miles of wilderness coastline allow hikers to crawl around jagged rocks and walk along sandy beaches Shi Shi Beach in the north at Cape Flattery and Oil City at the mouth of the Hoh River. A dense rainforest canopy is capped by towering cedars and draped in drooping mosses fed by over 200 inches of rain per year. Rainshadow areas of subalpine meadows and barren outcroppings in the eastern region benefit from the moisture-laden clouds dropping rain as they rise over mountains such as Mount Olympus and the Valhallas. Each part of the three parks promises adventure, education, friendship, personal growth, intimacy with the non-human natural world, and opportunities for leadership.
With over 600 miles of trails, 168 miles of roadway, and over 2,600 campsites to explore, it makes sense to seek guidance from people who known the area: public entities such as the National Park Service and private entities such as Olympic Mountain School. Your guide has worked for both resources and can you navigate the process of obtaining permits while ensuring compliance with all federal regulations during interpretive-instructional day hikes, backpacking trips, Leave No Trace trainings, mountain seminars, service projects, and getting from here to there with a trailhead shuttle.
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Beaches, Rainforests, Alpine Rock, and High Glaciers
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- Hoh
- Queets
- Quinault
- Staircase
- Dosewallips
- Royal Basin
- Hurricane
- Elwha
- Bailey Range
- Sol Duc
- Bogachiel
- North Coast
- South Coast
Learn outdoor skills and leadership! Wilderness adventures require experienced leadership and the skills to succeed. Can you offer this promise of safety to yourself, your friends, and your family? Can you ensure that you will not turn your vacation into tragedy through your own lack of training? Turn this lack into a surplus by investing in a guide who will both help to keep your party safe and to offer training for your next time into the mountains. Learn to live "The Freedom of the Hills" and teach this lifestyle to your friends and family. Use this lifestyle to get ahead in the business world by developing self-sufficiency, imagination, and decision making.
"Staying Found" is no easy task in a wilderness of 876,669 acres. Visitors to America's wild places go missing every year, and some never come home. In July of 2006, for example, thousands of hours of searching was put in by over 70 searchers (including your Olympic Mountain School guide) in the Staircase area of the Park--searchers with helicopters, planes with infrared sensors, grid-searchers with whistles, divers with underwater cameras, and climbers with ropes and rappel skills. Avoid putting your family through such agony by taking the time and energy to invest in the skills that will help protect you from harm.
