Backpacking: Beyond the Boy Scout Trail

7299 Indian Cove Rd,Twentynine Palms CA 92277

06 April, 2023

Description

Backpacking in the desert? Yes, it’s possible! Spend a few days out in the backcountry with DI director Sarah Witt and learn how to plan your own dry-Clim outing while traveling the picturesque boundary lands of the Joshua Tree National Park wilderness. We’ll trek 22.5 miles on this 3-day, 2-night trip that loops through the northwest corner of the park. This outing is great for all level of backpackers, but especially beginners who have a streak for adventure and aren’t quite ready to go on their own. After registering, please review the equipment list linked in the document under "trip details" below. You will receive a phone call from Desert Institute within a few days, to go over important information about this adventure. Activity Level: Extreme Trip Details: Backpacking: Beyond the Boy Scout Trail, Spring 2023 Participant Waiver: Please fill out and return the participant waiver within seven days of your event to [email protected] (digital signature or photo of signed doc is ok) To receive your $10 off Membership Discount, please enter your membership code at the checkout! learn more about your guide, sarahSarah is a grassroots educator, artist, and chef who values an exploratory, hands-on approach to how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Sarah moved to the high desert in 2016, and her natural curiosity about the environment sparked several projects that brought people together to explore our relationship to the land through botany, food, and hiking. In collaboration with the non-profit High Desert Test Sites, Sarah founded the monthly community wild-plant dinner and discussion event High Desert Test Kitchen, which later generated Hole in the Sand, her immersive platform for informal desert educational events focused around plant-identification hikes, overnight desert backpacking trips, and seasonal pop-up dinners. Most recently Sarah‘s been teaching culinary arts at Copper Mountain College and College of the Desert, and she‘s so excited to collaborate with the community and broaden her outreach by joining the team at JTNPA as Director of Desert Institute!