Outdoor Experience Community

The Outdoor Experience community promotes engagement and exploration with the outdoor environment. The community emphasizes the seven Leave No Trace Principles to ensure residents within the community have a deeper understanding and appreciation for the outdoor environment. This community is for students who have a passion and/or interest for the outdoors and recreational activities. We look to make engaging in the great outdoors inclusive and welcoming for all skill levels, interests, and abilities!

• Are interested in learning more about outdoor recreation and the natural world (no prior experience or skills needed!)
• Have different skill levels, abilities, body sizes, and knowledge and want to experience the outdoor environment
• Want to be involved in discussions, programs, leadership development and reflection as a way of fostering deeper connections to the outdoors and to self

By participating in the Outdoor Experience Community, students will:

• Engage with the outdoor environment to foster the development of self-identity
• Participate in discussions, programs, and leadership development to deepen an understanding of outdoor recreation and environmental justice
• Identify ways to use individual and collective action to enact positive change on our campus and in our local community
• Develop practical leadership skills related to outdoor recreation

The Outdoor Experience Learning Community is in collaboration with Outdoor Rec, PLU’s Wilderness Adventure Club.

You do not have to be involved in the Outdoor Rec program to live in the Outdoor Experience LC!