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High Adventure

High Adventure refers to physically demanding, challenging outdoor activities and expeditions offered for older Scouts and Venturers. These programs include the four National High Adventure Bases: Philmont Scout Ranch (backpacking), Florida Sea Base (aquatic adventures), Northern Tier (canoeing), and The Summit Bechtel Reserve (adventure sports). These adventures are designed to build skills, resilience, and a lasting appreciation for the outdoors through challenging, team-based experiences.

Expeditions

Philmont

Philmont Scout Ranch is the Boy Scouts of America’s premier High Adventure base. It challenges Scouts with more than 214 square miles of rugged northern New Mexico wilderness. Backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and training courses.

SeaBase

Sea Base is a high adventure base run by Scouting America in the Florida Keys. Aquatic programs including sailing, scuba diving, fishing, ocean kayaking, paddle boarding, and rustic camping on undeveloped barrier islands all challenge Scout crews.

Northern Tier

Northern Tier is the premier high adventure for wilderness canoeing and winter camping offered by Scouting America, providing a unique experience in the rugged Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota to the Atikaki Provincial Park of Manitoba.

National Outdoor Awards Program

The award consists of up to six emblem segments positioned around the perimeter of a beautiful center emblem. All are embroidered in full color. The segments represent six areas of emphasis: Camping, Aquatics, Conservation, Hiking, Riding, and Adventure, with rigorous requirements to earn each segment. The center emblem features an outdoor scene with fleur-de-lis and the words “National Outdoor Awards.

Camping

Camping teaches essential outdoor skills, such as cooking, navigation, first aid, and survival techniques. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed over 100 nights of Camping!

Hiking

Hiking is a core activity that helps Scouts achieve physical health and understand the principles of responsible outdoor conduct, such as Leave No Trace. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed over 200 miles of Hiking!

Aquatics

Watersports promote physical fitness, teach valuable safety and life-saving skills, and provide fun, engaging activities our Troop members enjoy. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed over 100 hours on the Water!

Riding

Riding teaches valuable lessons in responsibility, discipline, and self-confidence through care, maintenance, and riding techniques. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed over 200 miles of Riding!

Adventure

In an era of increased indoor and screen time, Scouting adventures get our young people outdoors, unplugged, and connected with the natural world. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed a series of over 15 Adventures!

Conservation

Conservation teaches our youth to be responsible stewards of the environment, fostering a lifelong respect for nature through community service in projects like tree planting, energy conservation, and wildlife habitat restoration. Many of our Scouts with this award have completed over 100 hours of Service!

50-Miler Award

The 50-Miler Award is an award designed to promote the ideals of Scoutcraft, conservation, self-reliance, and physical fitness. Troop 605 runs the Willamette River about every other year, traveling about 70 miles from Eugene to Albany, camping on islands along the way.

Relaxing after a day on the river

Recovering from a rough patch of water

The paddlers at the take point in Albany, OR

Historic Trails Award

The Historic Trails Award is an award designed to promote citizenship, and appreciation of national history. It is awarded for studying about, hiking or camping along, and performing a service project on a historic trail. Troop 605 helped the USFS map updated GPS coordinates for the various signposts that mark the Oregon Trail along the Old Barlow Road.

USFS Oregon Trail Markers

Trail Crew Conducting the Historic Trail Survey

Signs Marking Key Points

Tualatin River Canoe Trail

Every Scout in the troop deserves the opportunity to participate in a well-organized Canoeing program. The U.S. Department of the Interior designated the Tualatin River as a National Water Trail, only one of three in Oregon. Troop 605 developed the Scouting Award for traversing the navigable section and routinely takes summer evening trips on our local waterway.