Hone Your Adventuring Skills
Try out new activities and practice outdoor pursuits with Skill Clinics by Southern Adventures. Skill Clinics are free opportunities to experience the thrill of adventure and test your survival abilities.
Come On Out to Backcountry Week
Get ready for a week of good ol’ fashioned outdoors fun! Join Southern Adventures for a week of special Backcountry Week Skill Clinics on cooking, shelter building, orienteering and firebuilding!
Uncover Skill Clinics
A variety of exciting Skill Clinics happen throughout each semester. Find your chance to learn a fun new skill or master your
Advanced Climbing Clinic
Expand your skills from the Basic Belay Clinic and review advanced climbing technique, physical training and climbing and lead belay technique. Demonstrate your ability to climb 5.8 on top rope without falling to complete the clinic!
Rappelling Clinic
Challenge yourself with the single line rappel technique on the outdoor rappelling tower in M.C. Anderson Park.
Basic Sea Kayaking Clinic
Try kayaking in a safe environment! Understand how to properly enter and exit your kayak, perform basic paddle strokes and rescues and learn more about tides and other nautical terms.
Advanced Kayaking Clinic
Take on greater waters after the Basic Sea Kayaking Clinic. Refine your paddling skills, try out kayak rolling and learn more about nautical travel and environmental conditions.
Whitewater Kayak Roll Clinic
Learn essential skills for whitewater kayaking. Attempt rolls, rescues and basic paddle strokes and unlock rental access for whitewater kayaks from The Southern Adventures Center.
Basic Belay Clinic
Become a certified climber so you can belay at the RAC’s Climbing Wall! Learn the “Pull Brake Under Slide” (PBUS) method of taking rope, tie in using a figure eight follow through and understand basic safety for indoor rock climbing.
Intro to Paddle Boarding Clinic
Try out the basics of paddle boarding at Lake Ruby! Learn how to assume the proper stance, use good paddle strokes, take falls and self-rescue in a comfortable paddling environment.