by Nicole Strik
For my action plan I intend to spread the love of nature and the outdoors with the Boston College community. Boston College has a program called “Outdoor Adventures”, which is operated through the campus recreation complex. Outdoor Adventures hosts a variety of outdoor retreats and adventures ranging from a day hike to a week long outdoor adventure trip to the Everglades. Students of Boston College lead all of the trips. Hence, as a part of my action plan I will plan to become a trip leader, likely beginning with leading hikes. This involves a semester of trip leader training with more experienced Outdoor Adventure trip leaders involving weekly training sessions outdoors on the weekends in the fall semester. After the semester of training I will be able to lead hiking adventures in the spring in which I seek to instill a love and appreciation of the outdoors in the students I guide. Click here to read Nicole’s full action plan.