San Diego Imperial CouncilHigh Adventure Leadership Training

Kit Carson Round TableNovember 2015

Tim CaulfieldHigh Adventure Team

MISSION STATEMENT"The purpose of the High Adventure Team is to coordinate and promote challenging

outdoor activities in support of the goals of the Boy Scouts of America."

The High Adventure Team Goals and Objectives are:

•Educate and train youth and adult leaders in the subjects critical to outdoor awareness and leadership.•Promote high adventure and conservation activities.•Provide a resource for information about camping, backpacking, and water treks.•Administer an incentive awards program in support of our mission.

High Adventure Leader Trek Training (HALTT)This 37-hour course prepares unit leaders for backpacking and wilderness camping trips. Topics include trek planning, equipment, food, health and safety, orienteering, and places to go.

Units planning to hike, backpack or snowcamp and earn High Adventure Awards must have a trained adult with a current card accompanying the trip. Leaders must renew HALTT card every four years by attending the One-Day HALTT Retraining Course.

•HALTT Session I weeknight session covers:• Exposure/Protection from weather• Studies of Hyperthermia and Hypothermia• Discussions of HALTT, Water Trek, and Specialist training

•HALTT Session II Saturday covers:• Prepartion, equipment, and leadership for High Adventure outings• Health, Safety, and Mountain Miseries• Food: planning, purchasing, packaging, and preparation• Trekking: peaks to deserts, awards, and permits• Trail: Finding, keeping, communications, customs, courtesies, and conservation

•HALTT Session III-A weekend session covers:• Backpack hike• Orienteering• Discussions on boots, bears, packs, pack repair, stoves and trail building

ParticularsFee:$6.00 -- Registration only at the class. Prerequisites:- Be at least 18 years of age- Be registered with BSA (as an adult)-Current BSA Medical Form A & B- Contact Val Leonard (619)448-1165Val448@cox.net

Water Trek TrainingThis 15-hour course prepares unit leaders to operate on flat and moving water. Leaders completing Sessions I, II, and III-B receive a patch and numbered card.

A trained adult with a current registration card must accompany units on all water outings for the unit to earn High Adventure Awards.

All Water Trek specific classes, known collectively as "Session III-B", are held at the Fiesta Island Youth Aquatic Center on Mission Bay

•Water Trek Session III-B weeknight session covers:• Safe Swim Defense• Safety Afloat• Canoeing Safety• Planning a Water Trek• Rules and Procedures for use on the river.

•Water Trek Session III-B weekend sessions cover:• Equipment-PFDs• Parts of the paddle and canoe• Canoe Handling:

• basic canoeing strokes • solo and tandem practice• Canoe rescue

RE-TRAINING: Leaders must renew their Water Trek card every four years by repeating the first two meetings of Session III-B.ParticularsFee:$6.00Prerequisites:- HALTT Sessions I, II-A CPR card and any level of Red Cross (or equivalent) First Aid card - Current BSA Medical Form-Contact:Scott Bernet, Water Trek Chairman(619)237-9433scott@shbarch.com

Specialist TrainingThis course prepares unit leaders in areas beyond the basic HALTT training: desert backpacking, snow camping, technical rock climbing, cycle trekking, equipment making, search and rescue, orienteering skills, and more. Leaders completing all sessions receive a certificate and patch. Completion of Sessions I, II, III-A or III-B are not required to START the course. Course completion requires HALTT and Water Trek and Level 1 of Trail Building. Three years are allowed for completion.

•Leadership and Desert Skills•Desert Backpack to Anza-Borrego•Equipment Making and Emergencies•Snow Skills & Trip Planning•3 Day Snow Backpack to San Jacinto

Particulars

Fee:$25.00Prerequisites: None, but see note above regarding completion of HALTT, Water Trek, and Trail Building

Contact:Wally Clack, Specialist Chairman(858)672-1283wclack@sbcglobal.net

Unit BackpackingUNIT BACKPACK TRAINING for Scouts is a weekend training program designed for youth so they can learn basic backpacking and trail camping under their own adult leadership. Unit equipment and backpacks are provided by the Council. This program is especially applicable to those units with little or no experience or equipment.

•This weekend Backpack Training starts at 8:00 Saturday morning. Backpacks, lighweight mountain cook kits, propane fuel stoves and tube tents are issued at this time.

•A six-mile loop trail is backpack-hiked, ending at a trail camp in MSR.

•High Sierra Trek-experienced instructors from the H.A.T. provide guidance, instruction and help along the trail and in camp.

ParticularsFee:$2.00 per participant, pre-registered

Location:Mataguay Scout Reservation Contact: Dan Beauregard: 619-755-0360, dbeau3977@hotmail.comor: SDIC BSA Headquarters, Camping Division: 619-298-6121 ext. 246

Trail BuildingA one-day course to teach Scouts trail construction and maintenance. Eagle Scout candidates can be trained in trail construction for projects that they develop off of BSA property.

Various patches/awards can be earned by doing trail work:•TRAILSAVER Series Awards--Cummulative hours not used elsewhere:•Silver Trail Saver Patch -- 6 hours of trail work.•Forest Conservation Patch -- 12 hours of trail work.•Gold Trail Saver Patch -- 18 hours of trail work.•Trail Blazing Patch -- 24 hours of trail work.•Trail Saver Ribbon/medal -- 30 hours of trail work.•Pacific Crest Trail Hiking Award -- Backpack 15 miles on PCT and Do 4 hours of work on PCT or PCT feeder trail within 6 months of hike.•Pacific Crest Trail Builder Award -- Do 6 hours of PCT trail work.•Pacific Crest Trail Footprint -- For an additional 15 miles of PCT hiking & 2 hours of trail construction or maintenance work on PCT.

Particulars

Location: Various sites throughout the DistrictContact: Rob Langsdorf (858)454-4777Mctrob@yahoo.com or Raoul Ludwig (760)747-2871raoul.ludwig@gmail.com

BSA Climbing InstructorDescriptionTwo courses are offered:•BSA Climbing Instructor Certification (good for 2 years upon successful completion)•BSA Climbing Instructor-in-Training (same course as above with, 2-year certification)

No climbing/rappelling instruction is given during the course. The course is designed for experienced climbers with a desire to become BSA Instructors.

•National BSA standards ("Climb on Safely") require councils, districts, merit badge counselors and units participating in climbing/rappelling activities to have qualified Instructor at the activity site beginning 1/01/01. •BSA standards recognize qualified instructors from nationally recognized climbing schools, colleges, or a certified BSA climbing instructor.•Experienced climbers can help keep climbing/rappelling as part of BSA activities by becoming a trained BSA instructor for your unit, district, or council.•BSA Climbing Directors from the San Diego - Imperial Council's High Adventure Team will be conducting BSA climbing instructor certification courses beginning 2001.

ParticularsFee:$40 per personCourse size is limited to 12 candidates.Prerequisites: Applicants must be experienced climbers with their own gear. At the first session applicants must submit current First Aid, CPR, YPT cards, and a standard BSA medical form.Duration:24+ hours total in three sessions:•8 hours classroom on National standards,•8+ hours technical skill evalution,•8+ hours instructor skill evaluation.Contact: Steve Schrell: 858-270-3349, schrellfamily@aol.com

Additional High Adventure Training• C.O.P.E Instructor Course - Challenging Outdoor Personal

Experience – Paul Hammond – 619-921-5587 – locopyro@aol.com

• San Diego Council Philmont Advisor Round Tables – Kim Lundgren – High Adventure Base Chair – troop681@hotmail.com

• Comfort Back Packing – Mike Reynolds justcheckinmike@yahoo.com & Terry Thompson tathompson46@gmail.com

• Philmont Advisor Skill School (PASS)• Philmont PASS – 4 days & 3 nights at Philmont• Field Pass – 10 hours in a city near you.• Field Philmont Advisor Workshop (PAW) – 2 Hrs in a City near you.

• Wilderness First Aid – (WFA) – Offered by Council and NOLS @ REI Locations

• CPR – BSA & American Red Cross

• National Outdoor Leadership School – NOLS - http://www.nols.edu

ResourcesHIGH ADVENTURE TEAM WEB SITE - http://highadventure.sdicbsa.org/train.htm

Trek Aids - http://highadventure.sdicbsa.org/trekaids.htm

Speakers - http://highadventure.sdicbsa.org/speakers.htm

Team - http://highadventure.sdicbsa.org/roster.htm

High Adventure Chairman – Bob Niderost – 858-274-3348 – bsabob@pacbell.net

High Adventure Team – HALTT – Tim Caulfield – 949-322-1185 – tim.caulfield@gmail.com