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third, teaching you responsible use of wild lands and concern for the continual preservation of these areas for future generations.
 Acquiring
Outdoor Skills
When you join a Wilderness Ventures trip, you will learn a variety of outdoor living skills through your exposure to a wide range of outdoor activities and environments. You will learn skills such as trip planning, backcountry travel, outdoor cooking, minimum impact camping, and on our bicycle trips, safe bicycling skills -- all within an environment which is non-competitive and stress free. While we certainly believe in challenge, we also believe that learning should be fun. You will come away from your experience with self-confidence in your ability to function in these environments and with a burning desire to return to the wilderness throughout your life.
Becoming A Peer Leader
We believe strongly that your experience with us should be relevant to your life beyond the outdoor environment. Because of our small group size and our very low student-to-staff ratios, you will receive the highest level of individual attention and you will be counted on to be a valuable contributor to your small group. Your greatest challenge will be learning how to live with your small community and how to place your own personal needs behind those of your group. As a result of our focus on you as an individual and your responsibility to your group, you will be amazed at how quickly your group bonds. By the conclusion of your trip, you will return home having experienced profound personal growth with a better understanding of yourself. You will have gained self-confidence, self-reliance and a greater sense of responsibility for your life, and vastly enhanced leadership and teamwork skills.
Caring for Wild Lands
When we founded Wilderness Ventures in 1972, we were fortunate that access to the most spectacular wilderness environments was still available. Our access to so many of these magnificent places is unmatched by any other similar appearing program. While we are privileged to be able to visit these natural treasures, our travels through them instill in us a responsibility for their future survival. On our expeditions, you will learn not only the finest methods of zero impact camping, but you will also gain a love for these places and a burning desire to see them saved so that your children might someday have a similar experience.
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