Dec 21, 2020 | Expedition Planning, Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Ideas, Ten Essentials (Blog Series)
I was on a personal trip with a good friend of mine, snowshoeing through the Yosemite backcountry in early February. Winter in the high Sierras of California is quite an amazing time to experience the mountains. We had planned a light and fast trip, to enable us to...
Nov 25, 2020 | Community, Expedition Planning, Facilitation, Food, Ten Essentials (Blog Series)
I was guiding a small group through a narrow mountain valley on a cold, foggy, wet morning high up on the Tibetan Plateau in western China. In the distance, we saw a woman waving her arms in front of her nomadic yurt. Initially thinking something was wrong, we hastily...
Oct 9, 2020 | Expedition Planning, Experiential Teaching & Facilitation, Ten Essentials (Blog Series)
Shelters Protect Us in Every Variation of Circumstances It was a wonderful day in late June, high up in the mountains of the Bridger-Teton Wilderness in Wyoming, USA. Our group had spent most of the day slogging through some soggy trails. All the snowmelt, from the...
Oct 2, 2020 | Ideas, Teachable Moments, Ten Essentials (Blog Series), Wilderness Core Knowledge
You are packing up your pack for an exciting weekend trip into the mountains. As you survey the mound of gear that you have laying out, you ask yourself, “Am I bringing too much?”, “Am I missing anything?” Maybe it’s your first time, and you don’t even know where to...
Aug 14, 2020 | Experiential Learning, Intelligent Design, Teachable Moments, Worship
Outdoorleaders.com is the official blog for Wilderness Ministry Institute. It is a pleasure to have WMI staff contribute to my blog as they are training outdoor leaders and practicing wilderness ministry around the globe. In this post, Andrew Underwood sheds some...
