| 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. |
Scouting Programs
Olympic Mountain School offers custom programs in hiking, climbing, and Leave No Trace to Scouting programs. The founder and guide, Jason Bausher, is an Eagle Scout, a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, and a Wood Badge-trained leader in the Boy Scouts of America. With this in mind, Jason offers discounted prices to all Scouting groups.
Jason also offers FREE programs to Cub Scout packs and Boy Scout troops in Grays Harbor County.Jason offers an additional 5% discount to all Boy Scout groups who can show that 100% of the Scouts and Scouters have earned the BSA Leave No Trace Awareness Award or who earn the award on their OMS trip or training.
Many Scouters are eager to take their boys on outings, but they lack the outdoor skills to make this happen in a responsible manner. BSA has created the Outdoor Essentials program for Boy Scout leaders and the BALOO program for Cub Scout leaders, but these programs can only give leaders a taste of the skills they should know. This is especially the case with Leave No Trace. Land managers like the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service complain about destructive impacts from Boy Scout treks, and Olympic Mountain School can teach you how we can together return BSA to its reputation as protector of the wilderness.
Jason can improve your outdoor program with these experiences:
- Leave No Trace Awareness Award instruction
- Merit Badge Instruction on the trail: Backpacking, Camping, Cooking, Hiking, Weather, and Wilderness Survival
- Guided ascents of Mount Constance, Mount Deception, and other peaks
- 50-Milers guided across Olympic National Park
- Trip Planning
*Important note: Jason Bausher performs neither paid services in his BSA uniform nor paid services in any of his volunteer capacities. His unpaid volunteer time as a Scout and Scouter spans 17 years, and his paid trainings for Olympic Mountain School are completely separate from this volunteer time.
