| 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. |
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Best of the Olympic Peninsula™ 2007:
Vital Information to “DO THE LOOP” Around Washington State's Finest Beaches, Rainforests, and Mountains
Best of the Olympic Peninsula ™ 2007: Vital Information to “DO THE LOOP” Around Washington State's Finest Beaches, Rainforests, and Mountains. No other publication offers as much current information. This glossy-covered new book contains ALMOST 1,000 ENTRIES of businesses like yours around the Olympic Peninsula on or near the Highway 101 loop. “The Loop” starts in Aberdeen and works its way around the Peninsula back to Aberdeen. Businesses are listed BY MILEPOST between towns—hence no more guessing about mileages or drive times between stops. Showcasing a close-up cover photo of Mt. Olympus, this 64-page book measures 4” x 9”—the perfect size for brochure racks. From Port Angeles to Pacific Beach and from Potlatch to Neah Bay, all communities on the Peninsula are represented. In addition to restaurants and lodging, there are lists of drive times, zip codes, adventure guides, chambers of commerce, tourist bureaus, laundry, locksmiths, airports, museums, newspapers, phone numbers for Olympic National Park, outdoor supplies, hospitals, WiFi Access/Internet, RV dumps and parks, private transportation, public transportation, and wineries.
Stops include Aberdeen, Hoquiam, New London, Axford Prairie, Humptulips, Neilton, Ocean Shores, Ocean City, Copalis Beach, Pacific Beach, Moclips, Quinault, Amanda Park, Queets, Hoh, Bogachiel, Forks, Mora, La Push, Beaver, Sappho, Clallam Bay, Sekiu, Ozette, Neah Bay, Sol Duc, Lake Crescent, Joyce, Port Angeles, Sequim, Jamestown S'Klallam, Blyn, Gardiner, Discovery Bay, Port Townsend, Port Hadlock, Port Ludlow, Chimacum, Quilcene, Brinnon, Eldon, Lilliwaup, Holiday Beach, Hoodsport, Potlatch, Shelton, McCleary, Elma, Montesano, Central Park.
CLICK HERE for a generous .pdf sample of several pages from the book--NOT THE ENTIRE BOOK, BUT A SAMPLE OF 1/3 OF THE BOOK. Files use Adobe® Acrobat.
CLICK HERE to see the FRONT COVER.
CLICK HERE to see the BACK COVER.
- PAYMENT. To pass on savings to you, only cash, check or money orders are taken. Make out checks to "Olympic Mountain School." Mail your check to Olympic Mountain School, POB 624, Amanda Park, WA 98526. You can email your order to sales@olympicmountainschool.com.
- PRICE. Books cost $10.83 per book for individual (non-resale) sales to cover the 8.3% mandatory state sales tax.
- QUANTITY. For quantity sales (25+) at $5 per book for retailers, mail a copy of your resale certificate for no sales tax to be collected.
- SHIPPING. Shipping is $1 per single book up to 4 books, $5 for up to 10 books, and $10 for up to 50 books. Shipping is by USPS Priority mail and arrives 2-3 days on the Peninsula.
- EXPEDITED SHIPPING. Available at cost.
- Contact Jason Bausher at jasonbausher@aya.yale.edu or (360) 581-3936 for more information.
