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 Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) 
#7619280 - 11/10/07 05:35 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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im reposting this from the outdoor sub-thread into here:
Being young and done school, + after taking a few years off school doing what-not, im left with one choice; choosing a direction for the future.
So.. getting desperate, and feeling ill equipped to accept a "typical life"..
Im leaning towards taking a Mountain Skills Program
Which will be a precurser towards bigger and better things down the road, such as: An adventure based tourism degree.. leading to a career in anything as open as Tourism eco adventure business, Guiding and international travel. It could also be a building block to many other avenues..
Anyways, im just wondering if anyone has any experience with acquiring "outdoor skills" through a school like this.. and am wondering what ya'll think of this school?
Also wondering if anyone here is a guide or adventure instructor of some sort?
Thoughts?
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: PDU]
#7619324 - 11/10/07 05:47 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm in the same boat as you are in. Although I'm fresh out of high school and am in Europe thinking about what to do with my life. I have never thought of this idea and it intrigues me. I like nature and traveling. What else can you do with a degree like this?
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: zepp420]
#7619881 - 11/10/07 08:20 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shit, my links didnt work
Mountain skills program
Here's a second one, although im leaning towards the first..
Also in alberta
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: zepp420]
#7619893 - 11/10/07 08:24 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
zepp420 said:
I'm in the same boat as you are in. Although I'm fresh out of high school and am in Europe thinking about what to do with my life. I have never thought of this idea and it intrigues me. I like nature and traveling. What else can you do with a degree like this?
That program is not a degree, although a great prerequisite for a course in Adventure tourism, which would allow you to entrepreneur a business in something like mountain guiding/kayak/rock climbing/skiing/mtn biking/etc..
Id like to use it to set up a psychedelic international hostel in Peru offering all inclusive ayahucasa vacations facilitated by a peruvian shaman, and perhaps setting up an e business/psychedelic green house/entheogen suppy.
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: PDU]
#7619908 - 11/10/07 08:27 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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you're gonna get eaten by a jaguar
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#7619956 - 11/10/07 08:39 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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i havent taken any classes, however i have plenty of self taught and book taught experience. it takes longer to learn this way, however for those of us who dont have the money or time for a class, it works. i am confident that if you were to drop me into the middle of nowhere with nothing more than the clothes on my back i could survive. give me a knife and i could survive well.
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#7619968 - 11/10/07 08:41 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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i know you are from west coast right? but Chewonki in wiscasset maine does awesome wilderness first responder. thats like basically a wilderness EMT and you need it for everything, leading trips, backpacking, canoeing, mountain climb expeditions, everything. thats what i would do. have you thought of hiking the appalacian trail?
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Re: Mountain skills program (is anyone a guide?) [Re: sleepy]
#7620109 - 11/10/07 09:41 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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The way i see it, between the cost savings of Rent/food/insurance + gas.. the training really isnt THAT much, considering the experience available.
ive got a trust fund half funding the venture.
It seems like it would be invaluable experience, but really, i suppose im just looking for any easy way out for a destructive lifecycle..
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