Base camp days

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The course begins with the 3-day drive out to Utah. The learning objectives for these days are to orient students to the program, course, and each other as well as build and accelerate relationships across brigades and groups. And, of course, to ACCLIMATIZE! With that in mind, below is a sample curriculum for the travel days.

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Day 1

Set up camp and teach AW First 72-hour lessons on food, cooking, etc.

• Hold AW Expectations Talks that night.

Day 2

Pack-packing lesson

Possible shakedown hike?

Evening

Stove and cooking lesson. Have groups cook first meal like it is a backcountry meal (do pasta, stir fry, or something else easy). Have instructors with each group to walk them through basic cooking and stove skills.

Good time to have final brigade time and do AW Relationship Building Activities. Also, frame your first official hiking day*- do a TCP of the day and show the group to demonstrate good leadership skills.

• Be prepared that the following day pack-up and start-up will take sometime (it will be the first time they all have to get everything in their packs).