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 2021
January
29 full moon night hike
30 Prentice Cooper tour of overlooks
February
6 rock climbing
7 kayaking
Winter Break
12 exploring the Mushroom Rock area
12-13 mountain biking
20 trail running
21 faculty day hike
21 mountain biking
March
6 paddle boarding
7 rock climbing
20 all girls day hike
Spring Break
26-4 Cumberland Trail and TN State Parks
25-27 mountain biking
April
11 mountain biking
17 Savage Gulf wildflower hike
17 paddle board fishing
18 kayaking
May
1 kayaking and rafting
2 paddle board fishing
8 swimming and hiking - Big Soddy Gulf
8 all girls paddle board
Fall 2020
August
30 day hike/swimming - Boardcamp Creek
September
13 day hike/swimming - Savage Gulf
23-25 Freshman Trip
October
4 paddle board/fishing - Sequatchie River
8-12 Fall Break
Hiking on the Cumberland Trail
November
December
5 mountain biking
6 Cumberland Trail day hike - Prentice Cooper
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 2020-2021
Emily Dotson

Ava Echard

Nora Redding

Walkabout Student Instructors 2019-2020
Max Berube

Anika Iqbal

Lucia Jackson

Walkabout Student Instructors 2018-2019
Eric Shibata

Dillan Desai

Zach Taylor
