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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

13-17 Utah Ski Trip

14-16 kayaking (India group)

14-16 backpacking - Cumberland Trail

22 rock climbing

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

25 kayaking - Ocoee River

31-2 student instructor weekend

September

1-2 backpacking/swimming

6 bring a friend to Walkabout

7 paddle boarding

15 kayaking - Ocoee River

21-22 all girls paddle boarding

25-27 Freshman Trip

October

10-14 Fall Break

Folly Beach surfing

backpacking (10th - 13th)

19 mountain biking

20 kayaking - Ocoee River

27 rock climbing

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

7 day hike - Cumberland Trail

7 kayaking - Tellico River

14 day hike - Signal Mountain