College & University

Summit Adventure offers a wide range of courses for college and university faculty, staff, and students. From single day leadership and team-building courses on your campus to our for-credit semester programs. We can custom design a spring break, winter term, or full semester course for your school.
Students: Earn academic credit with a wide variety of courses from inter-term, spring break, and semester courses both domestically and abroad.

Open Enrollment Courses:

Mexico Service and Adventure - Summit Adventure is going to Monterrey, Mexico. Just like in Summit's traditional wilderness courses, Summit's Mexico Service and Adventure Course will test your physical limits, clarify your faith, and encourage you towards active compassion. During the nine days you will serve alongside a Mexican pastor in an impoverished community near Monterrey, hike to the summit of a mountain with a stunning view of this city of five million people, and rock climb on the world-famous limestone cliffs of El Potrero Chico. Towards the end of the course you may have the opportunity to practice your technical abilities and leadership skills by bringing kids from the community to El Potrero for a day of rock climbing.

Throughout the course you will be encouraged to consider the connections between the physical challenges of rock climbing and the interpersonal and spiritual dynamics of cross-cultural service. No prior rock climbing experience is required. More experienced climbers may have the chance to practice leading sport climbs.

Immersion Service and Adventure Semester - The ISAS incorporates outdoor adventure and service-learning across cultures both locally and internationally, community living, leadership, and spiritual formation into an authentic experience of learning in the Sierra Nevada of Central California and the Andes of Quito, Ecuador. Students from any College or University may receive up to 17 credits through Montreat College that can be transferred back to their school.

Ecuador Service and Mountaineering- This course is for participants who are interested in exploring the high altitude mountains around Quito, Ecuador (no experience necessary, only a bit of physical preparation), as well as, interacting and ministering with the people and culture of that country. Participants will join local organizations to help out in service and building relationships with Ecuadorians. The combination of personal and group challenge on the mountains is a good companion to the challenges of facing poverty and cross-cultural issues.

Wilderness Instructor- This 12 day course is a much more technical and strenuous course and is designed to train our instructors. It is open to participants who have interest in becoming either a Summit Instructor or who are interested in learning the technical, leadership, and facilitation skills needed to lead groups into the backcountry and facilitate their learning and growth through that experience. Participants will experience their own challenges and learning, as well as, learn rock climbing set-ups, rock and snow mountaineering and travel, risk management, small group facilitation, navigation, ministry and leadership skills, and experiential education teaching skills.

Adventure Leadership - This 7 day course is not as technical or strenuous as the Instructor course but a bit more technical and strenuous than other open enrollment courses. This course is for participants who are interested in learning adventure ministry leadership, group facilitation, technical outdoor leadership, and experiential education for use in their own church, school, or organization. This may be used as a pre-requisite to the Wilderness Instructor Course.

See our Calendar for this year’s course dates and prices or contact us at (559) 642-3899 or admin@summitadventure.com to learn more.

Custom Courses: Contact us at (559) 642-3899 or admin@summitadventure.com to discuss a custom course for you or your group.