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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

23 faculty rock climbing

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

30 Walkabout instructor trip

September

5 paddle boarding

13 day hike/swimming - Savage Gulf

19. kayaking - Ocoee River

23-25 Freshman Trip

28 hiking - Big Soddy

October

4 paddle board/fishing - Sequatchie River

8-12 Fall Break

Hiking on the Cumberland Trail

17 kayaking - Ocoee River

31 rock climbing

November

1 hiking - Big Soddy Gulf

8 kayaking - Tellico River

14 rock climbing

14 all girls day hike

December

5 mountain biking

6 Cumberland Trail day hike - Prentice Cooper