Explore new places… Meet new friends… Learn new skills… Have the time of your life!
“Scrambles” adventures include:
Backpacking
Rafting
Canoeing
Rock Climbing 
Trip Destinations
Lower Salmon River, ID
Smith Rocks, OR
Wallowa Mountains, OR
Olympic National Park, WA
Ross Lake, WA
San Juan Islands, WA
Strawberry Mountains, OR
North Cascades, WA
Sea Kayaking 
2010 Trip Dates
Regular Trips: August 17-26
Early Scrambles for International Students, Fall Athletes & Debaters: August 15-20
The Outdoor Program is sponsoring 18 “Scrambles” in August, designed to:
- Be geared toward beginners with little or no experience
- Ease the transition to college
- Gain a better understanding of life at Whitman
- Make new friends and start building a community
- Introduce new Whitman students to seasoned “Whitties”
- Be adventurous and fun
Choose from:
- Backpacking
- Sea Kayaking
- Canoeing
- Climbing
- Rafting
- Whitewater Kayaking
“Whether you’re a seasoned veteran of the outdoors or a first-time camper, the Scramble program is an incredible and unique opportunity to ease into life at Whitman College. I found some of my best friends on my scramble and it helped make freshman orientation an enjoyable experience.”
– Danny Kaplan ’10
“Every day of our scramble we splashed about in a new, perfectly blue alpine lake. We would then huddle around the Whisperlites making 4-liter batches of hot drinks.”
– Sam Bell, ’08
“Scrambles are an exciting and integral way that new students come to know Whitman and one another. Not only do they see and experience the spectacular recreational outdoors in the Northwest, our students form close friendship networks that last throughout their Whitman education and beyond.”
– President George Bridges
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