High Adventure Leader Trek Training (HALTT)

Description

This 37-hour course prepares unit leaders for backpacking and wilderness camping trips. Topics include trek planning, equipment, food, health and safety, orienteering, and places to go. Leaders completing sessions I, II, and III-A receive a patch and numbered card.

Units planning to hike, backpack or snowcamp and earn High Adventure Awards must have a trained adult with a current card accompanying the trip. Leaders must renew HALTT card every four years by attending the One-Day HALTT Retraining Course.

HALTT Session I weeknight session covers:

• Exposure/Protection from weather
• Studies of Hyperthermia and Hypothermia
• Discussions of HALTT, Water Trek, and Specialist training

HALTT Session II Saturday covers:

• Prepartion, equipment, and leadership for High Adventure outings
• Health, Safety, and Mountain Miseries
• Food: planning, purchasing, packaging, and preparation
• Trekking: peaks to deserts, awards, and permits
• Trail: Finding, keeping, communications, customs, courtesies, and conservation

HALTT Session III-A weekend session covers:

• Backpack hike
• Orienteering
• Discussions on boots, bears, packs, pack repair, stoves and trail building

Particulars

Schedule

	SESSION I Weeknight	SESSION II Saturday	SESSION III-A Saturday to Sunday
TIME:	6:30pm to 9:30pm	8:00am to 5:00pm	8:00am Saturday to 9:00am Sunday
LOCATION:	Northminster Presbyterian Church 4324 Clairemont Mesa Blvd (map)		Mataguay Scout Reservation (map) for backpack overnighter
2010 DATES:	17 Feb 2010 Wednesday	20 Feb 2010	27-28 Feb 2010
	4 May 2010 Tuesday	8 May 2010	15-16 May 2010
	15 Sep 2010 Wednesday	18 Sep 2010	25-26 Sep 2010
2011 DATES:	26 Jan 2011 Wednesday	29 Jan 2011	5-6 Feb 2011
	10 May 2011 Tuesday	14 May 2011	21-22 May 2011
	14 Sep 2011 Wednesday	17 Sep 2011	24-25 Sep 2011