Supporting At-Risk Youth Through Outdoor Experiential Education
John "PowerLock" Hunt is researching a book along the Appalachian Trail.
For those of you who have been following my trip, you know I came off the Trail after two days. I returned to Cincinnati as Amy, our daughter, was hospitalized while I was gone. That was an immediate concern as she is pregnant with 14 weeks to go. She is fine and so I am returning to the Trail April 2nd.
Originally I intended to hike the Trail, meet schools that worked with troubled kids in the outdoors. then write a book about the experience. The Trail and The Book are two very demanding and very different goals. In returning to the Trail my focus will be to research the book by meeting with at-risk youth programs, instructor training programs and other related programs.
In the short time I was on the trail originally I met three individuals with life experiences that lend themselves to the book. Two of the stories I got to write down; the third I had to track down while I was home. There was a feeling of a forced timeline which made me realized I could not do both well. I could write one or the other....a hike book or an OEE instructors view of working with kids in the outdoors.
I will continue to place blue dots on this map to show my progress.
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*3 R's of Outdoor Experiential Education:
...Respect for Others
...Respect for Self
...Responsibility acceptance for own actions
Points About Hiking the Appalachian Trail
Challenge: Various problems force hikers to
stop but they all relate to:
Too Far*
Too Heavy*
Too Fast*
Too Soon*
*Words spoken by Loon (AT Hiker) in Robert A. Rubin's
On A Beaten Path An Appalachian Pilgrimage page 34
Hitting the Wall: There is a dangerous condition that the hiker can fall into where "no margin of body fat remains on which to draw and (a hiker's) metabolism starts to consume its own strength, its own muscle.
Despite big breakfasts of oatmeal and raisins....
Despite vitamins every night,
Despite lunchtime sandwiches dripping with peanut butter and dried fruit,
Despite four or five Snickers bars a day,
Despite carbo-loaded dinners of rice, noodles, beans, and canned tuna or chicken, doused generously with margarine,
Despite all the donuts,
(the hiker is) gradually starving to death."
On A Beaten Path An Appalachian Pilgrimage, Robert Alden Rubin, The Lyons Press, 2000, pages 210 - 211
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