What is High Adventure?

[CNYScouter]

I'm putting together a PowerPoint presentation on High Adventure and need a short one sentence description answering:

 

What is High Adventure?

 

Thanks

 

CNYScouter

[bbng]

Something from these pages on national's site might help:

 

http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/resources/18-075/index.html

 

http://www.scouting.org/activities/highadventure/index.html

 

http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/directory/index.html

 

I thought the definition provided in Language of Scouting sounded rather dull, and your post seems to indicate that you may be trying to make a pitch for it, so that's why I added the links above. I tend to think of high adventure as the more challenging activities and trips planned out by Boys Scouts as they grow in skills and maturity.

[frank10]

Hmmm....

High adventure is:

Extream Scouting.

Scouting with an aditude.

Not for litle kids.

A personal chalange.

A team building adventure.

 

[OldGreyEagle]

Interesting question, what may be high adventure to one may be a walk in the park for another. What those troops in surburban Atlanta consider High Adventure may not at all thrill a Troop in suburban Anchorage. (I said Anchorage because I dont know how to spell Juneau)

 

To sum up High Adventure I would describe it as

 

Heart Pounding Excitement That Leaves You Wanting More!

 

 

[Mooseman]

High adventure is an activity that at some point during it you ask yourself why you are there, and at the end you can't believe you were able to complete it.

 

-MooSe

[eagle90]

Moose -

 

You hit that right on the head! At one point on just about every one of our High Adventure trips, whether it's rafting, canoeing, hiking, etc., I say to myself "What am I doing here? I'm getting too old for this!". At the end of the week it is "Where are we going next year?"!

 

[acco40]

All of you gave subjective definitions but doesn't the BSA have an objective definition? After all, isn't their a minimum age requirement for high adventure?

[johnmbowen]

Old Grey Eagle is correct that what may be high adventure to one is just a fun trip to another. My tastes and training go toward the higher end trips

 

Here is a video of our trip this summer:

 

http://homepage.mac.com/johnmbowen/

 

movie 2005 136 Westwater.

 

Since my crew and troop are used to this kind of outing, they are a bit jaded for mere campouts.

 

One thing to note is that my ASMs and I are also professional boatmen and are all highly trained in these activities, have current Wilderness First Aid etc. But this is NOT a "don't try this at home" message. You can do it too! Not only that, but you get healthy, have more fun, and find that fun in the outdoors doesn't have to mean doing it only with Boy Scouts!

 

So, go out, get the training! Have more fun. Do it for yourself!