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OUT 142
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Title: | Hiking |
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Long Title: | Hiking |
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Course Description: | Provides skills related to hiking and wilderness travel. Emphasizes hiking skills, proper conditioning, route finding, equipment, and hiking hazards and ethics. The course involves conditioning in the fitness center and weekend hikes. |
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Min Credit: | 1 |
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Status Notes: | Was PED 153, changed 1/17/13 effective 201410 CFE |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
A. Employ proper preparation for hiking.
B. Demonstrate how to utilize a compass and to read contour maps.
C. Practice staying on course.
D. Practice maneuvering over rough terrain.
E. Understand the environment and its causes and symptoms.
F. Know how to get properly organized for the hiking outing.
G. Demonstrate the proper ways to fill and adjust a backpack.
H. Identify and manage possible dangers in the environment.
I. Practice trail and environmental ethics.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to hiking
A. Proper physical conditioning methods
B. Walking up and down steep terrain
C. Select proper equipment
II. Route-finding
A. Maps and compass
B. Orientation
C. Rough terrain
III. Hiking dangers
A. Environment
IV. Preparing for hiking outings
V. Field tips
A. Application of skills
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