Outdoor Adventures provides a variety of physically active adventure activities to Drew students, faculty, staff, and community members in the hopes of teaching technical outdoor skills, developing self-confidence, and improving interpersonal relationships, all while having fun. Outdoor Adventures offers several types of activities of different skill and exertion levels both on and off campus. The activities and excursions include Wilderness Survival, Hiking for Fun, Backpacking, Rock Climbing, Horseback Riding, and more!
Whether you are looking to learn about the outdoors and a specific outdoor activity or your next adventure come visit us at the Campus Recreation office (room 262 Simon Forum).
Wilderness Survival Classes @ DREW!
Classes will be held on Thursdays from 6:30-7:30pm in Brother's College, Room 118
Register for this class by clicking on "Forms" (to the left of this screen).
This wilderness survival skills course is designed to allow you to experience nature in a pure and unmediated manner, and feel the freedom of walking across a landscape and learning to trust the earth to provide for all of your needs.
We’ll learn and apply wilderness survival skills as the opportunity and need arise...finding shelter and wild edible plants, learning navigation techniques and fire-making; this wilderness survival course gives you the opportunity to experience nature in an ancient and meaningful way.
We will cover various ancient wilderness survival skills such as making fire by friction, constructing primitive shelters, locating food and water by identifying of indicator species, and much more! Perhaps most importantly, you will learn to relax more while increasing your level of comfort, and we hope that you will carry this forward into a feeling of connection with your environment in the future.
All of our survival courses - Wilderness, Cold Weather (snow), Primitive and Desert, will provide you with enough skill and knowledge to properly take care of yourself on all future backcountry endeavors, regardless of weather, location, or available equipment. The extensive individual skill-building focus of each event will dramatically increase your confidence level as you progress through a series of exciting courses. If you are unsure how much training you need for specific applications, we can help you identify which courses will best meet your needs.
Nothing beats hands-on training. Good survival training significantly increases the odds in your favor.
