Outdoor Trips

The elective trips fall into two categories. Adventure Trips are the most intensive and focus on a single activity: backpacking, kayaking, river rafting, back-country skiing, climbing, biking (or a combination!).

Observation/Awareness Trips offer students the opportunity to connect with the natural world through more contemplative and less active means. Such trips include visiting tide pools, survival training and spending time on a working farm.

No previous experience is required, however, the activities are varied enough to challenge even those with some expertise. Students are encouraged to sign up for at least one outing during the year. 

Grade level trips offer students and teachers an opportunity to get away from the school and the city in order to build class unity and responsibility through trail work and other activities.

Ninth graders may do a ropes course together in the fall and spend a night at Redwood Glen during Spring Class Days. The final spring term Senior overnight trip may incorporate some hiking and final moments to bond as a class. 10th graders spend several days at Point Reyes in the spring carrying on the nearly 40-year tradition of trail work that Urban has conducted on behalf of the National Park Service.

2022-23 spring grade level trips.