During the year, OA Leaders are responsible for planning both single- and multi-day trips. As trip leaders, you will need to apply to lead, contact participants, plan the trip, manage equipment needs, and complete various post-trip responsibilities, such as de-issue and expense reports.
Outdoor Action Search
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Leading a group on a multi-day trip either in a base camp setting or a backcountry setting requires extensive training in outdoor camping skills, effective first aid, judgment and decision making, leadership and group facilitation. The final part of OA Leader Training is the Leader Training Trip (LTT), a 6-day trip which pulls together all of the skills you have been learning all semester.
Topics: Climbing
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Jeff Ward with the American Mountain Guides Association explains how to belay a lead climber.
Topics: Leader Training
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OA Leader Training Schedule - Check out the current schedule of when these trainings will be held.
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Becoming an Outdoor Action Leader
Topics: Leader Training
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Leadership Starts Here!
Become an Outdoor Action Leader
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Leader Training for Academic Year '23 - '24
The Outdoor Action Leader Training Program is focused on developing leadership in every student regardless your level of previous leadership or outdoor experience. If you want to take the next step in becoming a more effective leader, sign up for Leader Training over Fall Break, Wintersession, Spring Break or spread out during the spring semester. The Leader Training Program is free to all students.
Topics: Leader's Only
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Leader Trainers carry the tremendous responsibility of training Princeton students to lead groups in a backcountry setting. As a result, we take the qualities and qualifications of a Leader Trainer applicant very seriously. A Leader Trainer applicant should be comfortable in an (outdoor) group leadership role and ready to take on the next level of leadership: teaching others how to lead.
Topics: Leader Training
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the plans for Leader Training for 2020-2021?
In a typical year, beocming an OA Leader requires completing on-campus training in 4 skill areas (leadership, first aid, outdoor technical skills, and risk management), followed by a 6-day outdoor trip to practice implementing these skills. As is probably obvious, many of our plans have been thrown upside-down this year, and we are still in the process of figuring it all out.
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by Rick Curtis, Director, Outdoor Action Program, Princeton University
OA Guide to Building an Outdoor Program
1. Introduction
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OA Leader Training is a great way to meet FUN people while you easily complete the training and lead an OA Trip. We are looking for motivated students, graduate students and faculty or staff to become leaders for the Frosh Trip in September. Don’t consider yourself outdoorsy? Outdoor Action will teach you the skills you need to be competent in the outdoors. Our priorities are to find people who are excited about working with others and learning and teaching new skills, and who bring a diversity of experiences and backgrounds to the program.