Backpacking

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to basic backpacking skills, equipment, food, and backcountry travel. Day hikes and overnight hikes.) and be willing to share tents, stoves, cooking gear, etc. with other students in the course. Some students may need to borrow or purchase such gear depending on the equipment owned by members of the class. This is an activity course. No more than four hours of activity credit may be counted toward graduation. A student registering for an activities course in excess of these limits receives no credit for the additional course and the grade is not included in the computation of grade point.