Bay Area Wilderness Training creates opportunities for urban youth to experience wilderness first hand.

Operating out of the San Francisco Bay Area, BAWT supports teachers and youth workers with training, gear, funding and community support to help them get youth outdoors.  This support helps the teachers and youth workers lead successful overnight wilderness trips with at-risk and underprivileged youth.

* Every year BAWT helps more than 6,000 youth get into the outdoors, many for the first time.
* BAWT has served over 20,000 youth since its founding in 1999.
* BAWT is partnered with over 350 Bay Area and Sacramento youth organizations.
* Between BAWT’s 3 gear lending libraries, they can outfit over 360 youth campers at one time.

BAWT's program also considers the complex issues of race and culture.  In an ideal case, young people from a Latino community will be led in their wilderness experience by an urban, Spanish speaker who can relate to their backgrounds, and is well trained in leading outdoor environmental education programs.

BAWT believes that safe, well-led educational wilderness trips change young lives for the better, and that meeting challenges in the wilderness can make urban youth stronger in mind, body, spirit and ability.
Your support through The Intrepid Foundation will help enable more youth to have these life changing wilderness experiences.  Funds raised will help to subsidies course costs, improve training courses, help to equip youth, and to staff the three regional outdoor gear libraries.