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 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 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 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 Ranch (map) for backpack overnighter
2019 DATES:	19 Feb 2019 Tuesday	23 Feb 2019	2-3 Mar 2019
	8 May 2019 Wednesday	11 May 2019	18-19 May 2019
	18 Sep 2019 Wednesday	21 Sep 2019	28-29 Sep 2019
2020 DATES:	18 Feb 2020 Tuesday	22 Feb 2020	29 Feb - 1 Mar 2020
	6 May 2020 Wednesday	9 May 2020	16-17 May 2020
	16 Sep 2020 Wednesday	19 Sep 2020	26-28 Sep 2020