Out & Away
Field Tripping, Campouts & Backpacking

Our backcountry journeys bring real adventure, beauty and learning to youth. We offer scheduled boys and girls trips and custom trips for your group of youth. We can guide therapeutic or rites of passage trips/groups. Our trips are typically 5 days and 4 nights to designated wilderness areas in Oregon. We provide instruction in backcountry travel, navigation, cooking, shelter, basic first aid, fire and more. Participants on our scheduled Summer trips meet and connect with new friends, build confidence and get a break from the world of school, screens and sitting. We meet with groups prior to the trip and make sure everyone has the right gear and questions answered. Students use their own gear so that they can learn using the gear that they are familiar with but we have a lending library to save folks from unnecessary large purchases (backpacks/sleeping bags).

Backpacking Activities

Backcountry travel with Coyle Outside involves bushwacking, cooking, fighting off cold on winter trips and sunburns in the summer. Participants may travel through snow, steep cliffside trail, in the river or scrambling through and over rock.Trips are designed to be participant lead. Depending on the season we learn relevant skills to practice on the trip such as fire building, knife work projects, shade or rain shelters, pack loading and adjustement, map and compass work, knots and more. At night we might initiate group discussions about themes that arise during the days' adventures debriefing successes and mistakes or examining the meaning of leadership, interdependence or responsibility.