Outdoor Adventures

Outdoor Adventures (OA) serves the USD community with opportunities to experience outdoor activities that aim to promote personal growth, leadership development, relationship building and environmental responsibility. We offer a variety of local, regional and international outings that includes Pre-Orientation Adventure, overnight trips, outdoor recreation classes and day trips around San Diego. We also operate a rental shop and resource center for individuals that choose to venture on their own excursions and need some equipment or guidance.

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We love when alumni stop by OA! Mina and Sean are taking a quick trip to Panama to visit the Peace Corps site that Sean spent a few years at before returning to SD and embarking on a rail supported bikepacking trip to British Columbia. Life is good!
Enjoying the best gelato in town with the best staff around! #doppiochocolato
So excited to witness @yourwongandonly present her research on Gender Equity in Outdoor Adventures! Also excited to hang out with her OA fan club that came to support and learn. #unitedoutside
Roller skating works most muscle groups including Glutes, Quads, Abs, Calves,and Arms. #themoreyouknow🌈 AND @yourwongandonly has changed OA for the better and it was fun to celebrate her at Skate World!
We are so happy for and proud of our amazing graduate assistant @yourwongandonly who was recognized at the Diversity Banquet earlier this week. Lauren received the Dr. Colombo Award for Academics and was nominated for the L. Reuben Mitchell Award for Campus Wide Impact, the Dr. Evelyn Kirkley Award for Leadership, and the Dr. Judy Rauner Award for Social Justice. In two short years Lauren has had a major impact across campus. She will be presenting her action research about gender equity in Outdoor Adventures on Thursday May 16 and contact us for details if you would like to attend!
Wishing we had @usdpres around the office to help out with our end of the year inventory project. We 💕 that you take time out of your schedule to swap roles with a student for a day. And huge shout out to @tzzhang for the amazing job she did in her role as president!
In her role as President for a Day, @tzzhang selected the Linda Vista Multicultural Fair as the recipient of a $1000 donation on behalf of the @uofsandiego and today she presented @lvmcfair with a giant check. Way to go Tiff! So proud of you!
In 1919, at the dedication of the Grand Canyon National Park, Teddy Roosevelt stated “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.†The idea that the National Parks are America’s greatest idea fails to acknowledge the long history that indigenous people have in these places. Understanding, respecting and honoring the sacredness of the land is an important beginning. When you are outdoors enjoying a beautiful vista, remember that native people have been caretakers of these places long before they were parks. AND, acknowledgement is not just about parks, USD is on the ancestral land of the Kumeyaay and has recently taken steps to rename places and spaces. It’s a process and hopefully the National Park Service and USD will continue forging an inclusive path forward. So let’s celebrate our parks and acknowledge the history of native people in these places.
So much to love. So fragile. So resilient. So get outside and do what you can to experience, enjoy and protect. #earthday
It’s Sunday, but class is in session! We had a motivated group at paddle school this afternoon in preparations for our Easter Break canoe trip on the Colorado River. #takemetotheriver