NWC Outdoor Education

Monday, April 4, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wilderness First Aid Pics

Enjoy, these are some fun pics from senario featuring bear attack!! FUN, enjoy.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Rappelling

Just testing the video feature, this is from the Outdoor Recreation Activities class, rappelling off the Math and Science Building.

This past weekend a group of 16 students headed up to the A.L. Mickelson Field Station to test their skills while being stranded in the wilderness over night. The basis of the course is to educate students on how to handle being stranded and make it through the night. The students are given information in the weeks leading up to the weekend trip, and once at the field station, are sent off into the woods to create shelters and fires to see how comfortable they can stay until the following morning.

This year we had a number of styles of shelters, from simple snowcaves to more elaborate ones and variations of caves made with traps, along with straight tarp and stick shelters. Posted are some images of the shelters constructed by everyone.

Sunday morning we also spent some time talking about avlanches. Understanding the mechanics and physics of them, as well as what to do if you were caught in a slide. We fortunately had a great location to dig a number of snow pits, and play with avalanche beacons as well.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Fall Rock Climbing Class

The Beginning Rock Climbing class got out for their second day this past Friday. It was a nice sunny day out on the Limestone, can't ask for much more. We set up two 5.8 routes. One was a class limestone route, pretty steep and filled with pockets, the other was a bit of an addity for limestone, it climbed through a crack in a roof, and continued up the crack most of the way to the top.

The second route also made accessible a 5.11 route for anyone that was willing to give it a try. It climbed a hard line through the same roof with an awkward move that put your hands behind your head and then into a horizontal lieback. But once over that, it was nice cruising up 5.8 to the top.