high adventure
{{Short description|Type of outdoor experience}}
{{other uses|High adventure (disambiguation)}}
High adventure is a type of outdoor experience.{{cite web |title=High Adventure |url=http://www.gscnc.org/en/camp/high-adventure.html |publisher=gscnc.org}} It typically is meant to include activities like backpacking, hiking, kayaking or canoeing. It may also include mountaineering, rock climbing, mountain biking, orienteering, hang gliding, paragliding and hot air ballooning.{{cite web |title=High Adventure |url=https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/about-the-bsa/fact-sheets/outdoor-adventures/ |publisher=BSA |access-date=2019-11-05 |archive-date=2019-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105174139/https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/about-the-bsa/fact-sheets/outdoor-adventures/ |url-status=dead }}
High adventure in Scouting
Scout leaders may offer traditional canoeing or backpacking high-adventure programs, but high adventure often transcends typical Scouting activities. High adventure activities may include:
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- All-terrain vehicles
- Aquatics Lifesaving
- Backpacking
- Camping
- Canoeing
- Caving
- Climbing / Rappelling
- Project COPE / Ropes Course
- Expedition Planning
- Extreme Sports
- Geocaching
- First Aid
- Fishing
- Historical reenactment/Living history
- Horsemanship
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Leave No Trace
- Motorboating
- Mountain Biking
- Orienteering
- Personal Watercraft
- Sailing
- Search & Rescue
- Scuba Diving
- Shooting Sports/Archery
- Snorkeling
- Space Exploration
- Whitewater Rafting
- Wilderness Survival
- Winter Sports and Camping
- Zip-Line
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=High adventure bases=
{{Main|High Adventure Bases of the Boy Scouts of America}}
See also
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- Order of the Arrow High Adventure
- Outward Bound
- Outdoor education
- Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America)
- Ten essential items of gear
Related activities:
- Thru-hiking, hiking a trail from end to end
- Hillwalking
- List of long-distance footpaths
- Hiking equipment
- River trekking
- Rogaining
References
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External links
- {{cite web |title=Outdoor Adventures Team |url=https://www.scouting.org/outdooradventures |publisher=Boy Scouts of America}}
- {{cite web |title=Order of the Arrow High Adventure |url= https://oa-bsa.org/high-adventure |publisher=Boy Scouts of America}}
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