Adventure Treks offers this gap semester program that lets you go on a unique and highly rewarding learning adventure, building vital skills and traits along the way. The Leadership Adventure Semester (LAS) is a profound, intensive opportunity to deepen your outdoor, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Along with your peers, you will:

- Gain mastery in outdoor skills like backpacking, mountaineering, rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, and canoeing
- Take a Wilderness First Responder medical course and Swift Water Rescue training 
- Participate in local, meaningful service projects 
- Improve essential and pragmatic hands-on life skills (plumbing, home repair, personal finances, résumé building, etc.)
- Earn credits through Western Carolina University
- Develop personal growth, independence, and interpersonal skills 
- Help build a strong, supportive community

LAS emphasizes the development of noncognitive skills such as leadership, communication, collaboration, and community building—all necessary to succeed in today’s world. These will be woven naturally and intentionally into the gap semester as an excellent complement to your higher education experience.

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