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
2017 DATES:	21 Feb 2017 Tuesday	25 Feb 2017	4-5 Mar 2017
	10 May 2017 Wednesday	13 May 2017	20-21 May 2017
	13 Sep 2017 Wednesday	16 Sep 2017	23-24 Sep 2017
2018 DATES:	20 Feb 2018 Tuesday	24 Feb 2018	3-4 Mar 2018
	9 May 2018 Wednesday	12 May 2018	19-20 May 2018
	19 Sep 2018 Wednesday	22 Sep 2018	29-30 Sep 2018