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OA First Aid

Whether you want to be prepared for an emergency on campus, at home, or when traveling in the wilderness, make sure you have the proper training to safeguard yourself and others. CPR and an approved wilderness first aid course can help prepare you to handle a first aid emergency.

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Outdoor Action is Princeton's outdoor education program. Throughout the year we offer a range of different program activities.

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OA wants to help you enjoy the outdoors wherever you happen to be this fall so we are sponsoring a number of Virtual Events to help connect you to the outdoors and other members of the Princeton  Get Outside with Outdoors 101!
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OA Hiking & Backpacking

Outdoor Action offers hiking and backpacking opportunities as part of the OA Frosh Trip and Leader Training Programs as well as trip activities during the academic year.

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Thursday Night Rocks! Free Late Night Climbing supported by the Alcohol Initiative 10:30pm- Midnight

No previous experience is required and OA provides the gear, music, snacks and fun! Limited to students with PU ID. 

Location: OA's Climbing Wall in the southeast corner of Football Stadium (second level). Thursday night climbing is funded by the Trustee Alcohol Initiative Fund promoting non-alcoholic social activities on campus.

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The inclusion of Frosh Trip into regular Orientation in 2016 is the ultimate validation of OA's contributions to Princeton. All OA Leaders should be proud of what you've given to so many generations of Princetonians. - Rick Curtis '79 Join us for our next Alumni Trip - Hiking the Italian Dolomites - July 2020

For more information regarding when sign-ups open or for information on other OA/Princeton Journeys Alumni trips, fill out the Interest Form.

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The Outdoor Action Frosh Trip program is a Princeton University orientation program that gives incoming freshmen the opportunity to start college on a multi-day backpacking trip with their future friends and peers. Outdoor Action has always been aware of its unique opportunity to influence Princeton’s students, since it is responsible for giving more than half of each incoming class one of its first Princeton experiences. For this reason, Outdoor Action provides an ideal situation not only for students to make friends and start settling into college, but also to discuss issues that will...

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Keeping Clean on the Trail Handwashing
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The Effects of the Outdoor Action Frosh Trip on Freshmen's Adaptation to Princeton University: A Study of Pluralistic Ignorance Brian Wardwell
Princeton University
April 1999

This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Psychology