Seminar
New Hike-Urban Walk-Backpack Leader Seminar - Online Classroom
This 2.5 hour evening seminar provides experienced Mountaineers hikers,urban walkers or backpackers information they need to become an effective hike, urban walk or backpack leader for the club. This seminar is a pre-requisite (along with a mentor hike/urban walk/backpack and committee approval) to becoming an official hike or backpack leader for the club.
Contacts
- Tue, Apr 29, 2025
- Foothills Hiking Committee
- Day Hiking, Backpacking, Urban Walking
- Adults
- Easy, Easy
- Easy
- 7 (20 capacity)
- FULL (4 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This 2.5 hour evening course provides experienced Mountaineers hikers, urban walkers or backpackers information they need to become an effective hike, urban walk or backpack leader for the Mountaineers. This course is a pre-requisite (along with a mentor hike/backpack and committee approval) to becoming an official hike, urban walk or backpack leader for the club. Past and current hike, urban walk or backpack leaders as well as those interested in becoming a new leader are invited to participate. The workshop is free and open to all Mountaineers members, but please register online so we can schedule the right number of instructors.
Seminar objectives:
- Know the kinds of trips you want to lead, and how to attract participants who have the same interests and capabilities.
- Understand and be prepared to carry out the roles and expectations of a hike, urban walk or backpack leader for the Mountaineers.
- Be prepared and confident to handle common challenges you will encounter leading groups on the trail.
- Be ready to take the next steps to become a hike or backpack leader for the Mountaineers.
This session will be held on zoom and participants will need to join by desktop or laptop to be able to see the presentation slides. Zoom registration will be required and the registration link will be emailed to you in the weeks before the session.
The session will begin promptly at 6:15PM and will end at 9PM on April 29th (don't worry, this looks like a long time but we will keep you well occupied for the whole time with a number of breakout sessions and chances to interact with the facilitators!).
If it turns out that you can't attend, it is a very important courtesy for you to cancel on the seminar roster well in advance of the session and NOT at the last minute so that we can notify our facilitators. These are dedicated volunteers who already have scarce personal time and they are dedicating time to the session based on the number of people registered. THANK YOU!
Required Equipment
There is pre-work that you will be responsible to complete before the session. An email will be sent to you with the pre-work in the weeks before the session.