| 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. |
Corporate Leadership
Leave the inspirational speakers in the concrete frontcountry and become your own inspiration as you and your co-workers learn teamwork in the wilderness. Whether you call it a vacation or a team-building exercise, your backcountry adventure will require problem-solving skills, group decision-making, tolerance of others, persuasion, and on-the-ground responses to unforeseen situations. Taking your employees or management team into Olympic National Park for a corporate leadership program with Olympic Mountain School promises an intense opportunity for learning more about your group and for building camaraderie among its members. Strengthen your group's loyalty to you and their teamwork skills with one another while enjoying one of America's premier wilderness areas. Enjoy cost savings by raising productivity among your workers by boosting morale and cooperation. Here are some of the components of the corporate leadership programs that will help you and your colleagues work together more effectively:
- Planning where to go and how to get there
- What to bring and what to leave behind
- What and when to eat
- Self and Other: where to draw the line and why it matters
- Care of the Self: What happens when one person does not take care of the self?
- Colleague Care: How is everybody doing?
- Appropriate group speed balancing abilities and goals
- Surprises: responding to the unexpected (HOW to respond)
- Problem Solving: WITH WHAT to respond when surprised
- Games: team-building, leadership, motivational, and problem-solving outdoor games
Locations: Lake Quinault, Staircase (Lake Cushman), Royal Basin, Grand Valley
Length of time: one full day or more depending upon your needs
