We start you out with an easy kayaking afternoon, but we teach you real kayaking skills right from the start, not just splash and dash. As your confidence grows, you gain ambition to do more kayaking. With a little effort and practice, you are not just paddling in circles off the beach, but you are planning overnight trips to remote islands in Puget Sound and beyond. You know you have the skills, good judgement and right gear to do amazing things all on your own.

I get these questions. Meaning, people do ask me and they are in fact good questions (I get it). I have several answers, some about me, some about it, some about how I hope this ride changes things in my little world.

An important element of this trip is to demonstrate how good thinking backs up good action, that adventure is a mental game, informed by models, theories and science.

Easily said, harder to do, particularly when the pressure is on. In adventure leadership, the pressure is always on. So a leader’s thinking counts for a lot.