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The FSU Lakefront Park & Retreat Center is home to two outdoor adventure programs, Outdoor Pursuits and FSU Challenge. [2] Outdoor Pursuits is an outdoor adventure program that takes trips across the southeast. The program is available to both students and community members for a fee. Trips include hiking, skiing, paddling, yoga, and more.
Outward Bound (OB) is an international network of outdoor education organisations that was founded in the United Kingdom by Lawrence Holt in 1941 based on the educational principles of Kurt Hahn. Today there are organisations, called schools, in over 35 countries which are attended by more than 150,000 people each year.
Outdoor recreation involves any kind of activity within an outdoor environment. [4] Outdoor recreation can include established sports, and individuals can participate without association with teams, competitions or clubs. [5] Activities include backpacking, canoeing, canyoning, caving, climbing, hiking, hill walking, hunting, kayaking, and ...
Outdoor education spans the three domains of self, others, and the natural world. The relative emphasis of these three domains varies from one program to another. An outdoor education program can, for example, emphasize one (or more) of these aims to: teach outdoor survival skills; improve problem solving skills; reduce recidivism; enhance teamwork
Adventure centered experiences can include a wide variety of activities, due to the different ways people experience adventure. Outdoor sports, challenge courses, races, and even indoor activities can be used in adventure education. Adventure education relates to adventure programming, adventure therapy, and outdoor education.
The oldest, largest and most prominent of the Northern Tier bases is the Charles L. Sommers National High Adventure Base. Central to its programs is trips into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) and Quetico Provincial Park. Programs at the Northern Tier vary by season. In the summer, participants undertake wilderness canoe excursions.
Florida Museum of Natural History: Gainesville: Alachua: North Central: Exhibits include fossils, butterfly rainforest, recreated southwest Florida mangrove forest and sea grass estuary, area Native Americans, Northwest Florida ecosystems, outdoor wildflower and butterfly garden, trails through 60-acre Natural Area Teaching Lab
The local council can offer high-adventure training to help prepare adults to conduct outdoor activities. Some councils used Powder Horn program to do this. Powder Horn was available to Venturing, Boy Scouting and Varsity Scouting leaders [3] until it was retired in 2024.