Walkabout
Making Baylor students uncomfortable since 1976
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What is Walkabout?
Walkabout is an outdoor program that inspires Baylor students to be adventurous. Backpacking, rock climbing, and kayaking are vehicles to explore the natural world and foreign cultures in a unique way. Outdoor adventure is Walkabout's tool for creating a personal search for grace, composure, fellowship, awareness, and reflection. The aborigines of Australia customarily honor the tradition of adolescents going off into the wilderness to search for added meaning in their lives and for assistance in the struggle through the transitional stage of growing into adulthood. This wandering is called WALKABOUT. Baylor's outdoor program shares this name because we utilize the wilderness to create non-competitive opportunities for students to challenge themselves and share adventures with their teachers and each other.
Walkabout Spring 2019
February
2 mountain biking
8 kayaking - Little River Canyon
9 bouldering
Winter Break
14-16 kayaking (India group)
14-16 backpacking - Cumberland Trail
23 caving
March
7 mountain biking
7-8 kayaking - Chattooga River or Tellico River
7-8 backpacking - Cumberland Plateau
7-8 middle school backpacking
14 bouldering
21-22 all girls backpacking
28-29 mountain biking
Spring Break
kayaking/trekking in India (March 28 - April 12)
various excursions in the Southeast - (April 3 - 11)
canoe/rafting -ChattoogaRive tour - (April 3 - 6)
18 day hike
18 paddle boarding
19 kayaking - Ocoee River
May
2 mountain biking
8-9 backpacking/swimming - Cohutta Wilderness
Walkabout Fall 2019
August
6-13 Joe Key Award - Maine sea-kayaking
31-2 student instructor weekend
September
6 bring a friend to Walkabout
21 caving
21-22 all girls paddle boarding
25-27 Freshman Trip
October
10-14 Fall Break
backpacking (10th - 13th)
November
2 kayaking - Little River Canyon
9-10 rock climbing
9-10 backpacking - Cumberland Trail
9-10 all girls backpack
22-24 bikepacking on Thanksgiving Break
December
Walkabout Student Instructors
While our instructors acquire significant technical skills during their time with Walkabout, student leaders are selected based on their ability and desire to inspire and instruct their classmates. They develop guiding skills and experience that lead to a life of adventure far outside the gates of Baylor.
Walkabout Student Instructors 2019-2020
Max Berube
Anika Iqbal
Lucia Jackson
Emily Dotson
Ava Echard
Walkabout Student Instructors 2018-2019
Eric Shibata
Dillan Desai
Zach Taylor
