HEART (Health Education and Rescue Training) Wilderness First Aid is an intensive course that covers patient examination and evaluation, body systems and anatomy, wound care, splinting, environmental emergencies, and backcountry medicine. Hands-on simulations provide first-hand training in treating patients. This is an excellent course taught by experienced Wilderness First Responders and Emergency Medical Technicians and is highly recommended to all wilderness travelers. People who pass the ...

Visit the Outdoor Action Equipment Room for gear rentals: OA Equipment Room Location: 350 Alexander Street Hours: Thursday 4:30 – 6:30 PM & Friday 3:30 – 5:30 PM The Equipment Room is not open during breaks and exams. Equipment rental is only for students, faculty and staff of Princeton University. PUID required. We offer reduced rental pricing for extended trips: 1-4 days:  no discount 5-7 days:  20% off total rental fee 8+ days:   40% off tota...

Dates for Frosh Trip 2014 for the Princeton Class of 2018 The Outdoor Action Program is excited to welcome the Class of 2018 to our 41st Annual Frosh Trip Program. Since its inception in 1974 18,700 Princeton students have participated in the program. Outdoor Action is one of the very best ways for incoming students to make new friends, learn about campus life and the University and start off their college experience feeling supported. As one of the oldest, and the largest outdoor orientation...

The Outdoor Action Frosh Trip program is a Princeton University orientation program that gives incoming freshmen the opportunity to start college on a multi-day backpacking trip with their future friends and peers. Outdoor Action has always been aware of its unique opportunity to influence Princeton’s students, since it is responsible for giving more than half of each incoming class one of its first Princeton experiences. For this reason, Outdoor Action provides an ideal situation not only fo...