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 Fall 2019
August
6-13 Joe Key Award - Maine sea-kayaking
31-2 student instructor weekend
September
1-2 backpacking/swimming
6 bring a friend to Walkabout
15 kayaking - Ocoee River
21 caving
volunteer event
21-22 all girls paddle boarding
25-27 Freshman Trip
October
5 Alumni Weekend - paddle boarding
10-14 Fall Break
Folly Beach surfing
backpacking (10th - 13th)
19 mountain biking
20 kayaking - Ocoee River
27 rock climbing
November
3 kayaking - Tellico River
9-10 rock climbing
9-10 backpacking - Cumberland Trail
16-17 all girls backpack
23-1 Thanksgiving Break
kayaking in Panama
December
7 day hike - Cumberland Trail
8 bouldering
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
