Montana Outdoor High Adventure Base

MOHAB’s Expedition Leadership curriculum includes FIVE core areas:

1. EXPEDITION BEHAVIOR – Conflict resolution, service to the crew, loyalty, motivation, respect, honor.
2. ORGANIZATION – Managing equipment, skill sets, taking inventory, developing and following processes.
3. DECISION-MAKING – Tapping into the competencies of the group while evaluating environmental challenges to make good decisions as part of a sound risk-management framework.
4. EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY – Recognizing that challenge and uncertainty are the most certain things in life! And that they should be embraced with enthusiasm and courage, and overcome with a rational approach to decision making that allows challenges to be overcome and trials to be managed appropriately.
5. SELF-AWARENESS – The ability to take responsibility, understand assigned roles, take initiative, and recognize the important part you play as a team member.

The MOHAB Conservation curriculum focuses on THREE core areas:

1. LEAVE NO TRACE – Practices for minimum impact wilderness travel and camping;
2. WILD PLACES – Identify the needs for, and benefits of, preserving wilderness lands for ecosystem health and human benefit.
3. ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE – Learn the specific flora and fauna of the ecosystem of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, and how it relates to, and is impacted by, human activity.

MOHAB’s Wilderness Packrafting curriculum includes FIVE core areas:

1. PACKRAFTING EQUIPMENT – How to select, use and maintain wilderness packrafting gear.
2. PACKRAFTING SKILLS – Learn safe and effective techniques for traveling and communicating through water corridors, including lakes and rivers.
3. RISK MANAGEMENT – The process of making safe decisions in real-time while navigating unknown rivers through river scouting and group skills assessment.
4. NAVIGATION – Learn the process of on-water navigation quickly and accurately.
5. PACKRAFT PLANNING – Learn how to incorporate packrafts as a tool in planning wilderness expeditions.

MOHAB’s Wilderness Trekking Training curriculum includes FIVE core areas:

1. ULTRALIGHT BACKPACKING – The philosophy, equipment, and techniques of contemporary ultralight backpacking. We wholeheartedly adhere to the notion that we can reduce our pack weights with more knowledge, higher skills, and better planning!
2. EXPEDITION COOKING – Learn how to prepare your own gourmet meals in the backcountry with minimal cooking equipment and lightweight ingredients.
3. RISK MANAGEMENT – Become familiar with the process of making good decisions in the face of challenging and unpredictable circumstances that will empower you to be comfortable leading your own wilderness expedition.
4. NAVIGATION – Learn the process of navigating quickly and accurately, both on and off-trail, in forest, river, and mountain environments.
5. INCLEMENT CONDITIONS – Learn how to use your gear to maximum advantage, especially shelters, sleep systems, and clothing systems, for inclement mountain weather conditions.