Come Earth Day, April 22nd at 2:00 pm, a number of staff and volunteers from Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) will be taking time away from their work getting kids outdoors to green-up the curbside outside their office on the corner of 23rd and Broadway in downtown Oakland. When BAWT moved its offices from San Francisco to Oakland a few months ago, the curbside was filled with litter, weeds, and dog feces.
By Dennis Madsen, The Youth Outdoors Legacy Fund.
Photo by David Halterman
by Will Sands - The Durango Telegraph, January 8th, 2009.
A decade-old Durango climbing tragedy is growing into an opportunity for youths who have never seen, let alone summited, peaks.
Ten years ago, La Plata County native Greg Walker succumbed to acute mountain sickness and eventually fell to his death while mountaineering in Mexico. The well-loved, local figure had been attempting to climb Pico de Orizaba, an 18,500-foot volcano outside Mexico City.
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By Clifford Agocs, Climbing For Kids Coordinator.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 15th, 2008 - Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) launches its 2009 Climbing For Kids fundraising event nationwide on October 15th, 2008. Climbing for Kids is one of BAWT’s largest annual fundraising events and helps to finance programs that have gotten over 7,500 youth outdoors since 1999.
A growing body of research indicates that kids are spending less and less time doing outdoor activities.
By Kyle Macdonald, Bay Area Wilderness Training Founder and CEO.
San Francisco, CA, September 22, 2008
An increasing body of alarming evidence is linking a host of pediatric health problems - from childhood obesity to increased rates of Attention Deficit Disorder - to kids’ sedentary lifestyle.
By RACHEL RASKIN-ZRIHEN/Times-Herald staff writer
Launched on Vallejo Time Herald - 7/28/2008
Thinking "green" is nothing new to Vallejo resident Jasmin Acuna.
The Fairfield city planner and newlywed said she's been actively "green" since she was a teenager.
"I really got into the environment my senior year of high school, and now everything I do is connected to the environment in some way," the 1998 Vallejo High School graduate said.
By Mary Beth Hislop
Launched on Los Altos Town Crier- 7/9/2008
From Bullis-Purissima to Egan Junior High schools, from Gunn to Menlo high schools to college in Ohio, Caitlin Looney has a new destination: the peak of Mount Shasta.
The Los Altos native and longtime resident hopes to reach the summit of the 14,179-foot mountain with three others on a trip scheduled Thursday through Monday. It's not just a whim.
JUNE 2008
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CONTACT: Kyle Macdonald
415-788-3666, x125
kylemac@bawt.org
Innovative BAWTmobiles Offer Affordable Transportation
to get Youth Outdoors
City CarShare and Bay Area Wilderness Training Pool Resources to Serve Youth
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Salt Lake City, UT, January 24, 2008 " Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) announced that Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) is a finalist for the 2008 Outdoor Industry Ambassador Award, as nominated by the outdoor industry and then selected by OIA’s Board of Directors. The award winners were announced at the Industry Breakfast on Thursday, January 24, 2008, which kicks off the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City, Utah.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 30, 2007 Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) announces that world-class climber and alpinist Conrad Anker has joined its Climbing for Kids 2008 benefit climb program as the honorary Climb Chairperson. The six-mountain benefit climb program will raise more than $600,000 for programs to give at-risk and under-privileged youth the opportunity to enjoy life-affirming experiences out in the wilderness.