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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.

Topics: Hiking
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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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Creating a safe space to operate programs, both physical safety and psychological safety, requires understanding the dynamics that create unsafe situations. The Managing Safety Workshop will provide you with an understanding of how to evaluate and manage risk potential by identifying hazard factors and implementing safety factors that address increasing risk levels whether it is creating a safe environment in a physical setting like a team project, international travel or outdoor trip, or if it is dealing with the risks of institutional racism and bias.

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Outdoor Action Guide to Animal Tracking by Rick Curtis
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Content type: Document

This is the abbreviated version of the Risk Assessment & Safety Management Workshop developed by Rick Curtis of Outdoor Action.

Topics: Canoeing, Kayaking
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OA Paddling Program

Outdoor Action offers a variety of paddling programs including flatwater and whitewater canoeing on the Frosh Trip, local canoeing trips in the Princeton area and kayaking training class in the pool.

 

 

Topics: Job & Career
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Outdoor Action Jobs On Campus Jobs during the Semester

These jobs are open only to students at Princeton University. Jobs with Outdoor Action are eligible for students on Federal Work Study.

Topics: Climbing
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Topics: Canoeing, Kayaking
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Outdoor Action Guide to Planning a Safe River Trip by Rick Curtis
Topics: Sustainability
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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...