BACKPACKING BUILDING BLOCKS "DEMO DAY" - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

During this 4-hour hands-on class, students will visit several indoor and outdoor stations with their mentor group and their mentor will demonstrate various categories of gear and associated skills - shelters and sleep systems, clothing, footwear, backpacks, packing a pack - and the different food options for backpacking.  You will have the opportunity to get a close look, compare and understand your options, ask a lot of questions, and get information about prices and where to go to rent or buy some of the options.  Students will stay in their mentor groups through the entire session.

Our Backpacking Gear and Skills "Demo Day" will be held on Saturday March 28.  The Demo Day will consist of 5-6 gear and skills stations staffed by experienced volunteers, set up indoors and outdoors at various locations around the Seattle Mountaineers Program Center (instructions to get there will be provided in advance of the session).  Half of our mentor groups will attend an 8AM to Noon session and the other half will attend a 1PM to 5PM session (mentor groups will have a chance to express a preference for which session they prefer).  During that time the group will move together from station to station (about 45 mins per station) on a schedule that will be provided for them such that only one group of students is at a station at one time.