Why Choose Outdoor Adventures?
Outdoor Adventure Center is THE PLACE to get hooked up and connected to your latest adventure information. Our desire is to inform, connect, and equip you with paddling, biking, hiking, climbing, and snowboarding in and around the Northwest.
ACA Pro School
As an American Canoe Association (ACA) Pro School we are able to offer the quality instruction and certification courses that you are looking for. We are one of only a handful of organizations in the world with ACA Pro School status and we are eager to serve you; whether you are looking for the best in safe and effective paddling instruction, or a certification of your kayaking skills.
Our Greatest Asset is the Depth of our Organization:
Outdoor Adventures, "OA," started out as a sea kayaking outfitter in 1985 which serviced the San Juan Islands and the Seattle water front. Now, Outdoor Adventures not only outfits one to twenty-one day expeditions in the San Juan Islands, but also services kayaking around the Kirkland waterfront, the Washington Water Trails, the Hawaiian coasts, and Alaska’s inlets. New for 2005 is Outdoor Adventures’ partnership with Tofino Expeditions which has given Outdoor Adventure regulars the ability to paddle out of states in both Vancouver, BC & Baja, Mexico.
Outdoor Adventures has experience! For over 25 years the core staff of the Outdoor Adventures team has guided adventurers on wild, exciting, and scenic trips to destinations around the world.
Outdoor Adventures is well versed! Sea kayaking may be our specialization, but OA guides have always been cross trained instructors. American Canoe Association (ACA) open ocean, adaptive, flat water, & whitewater kayak instructors, Wilderness Kayak institute sea kayak guides, Orion Expedition and Wave Trek river raft guides, Reachout Expedition rock climbing technicians & high/low ropes course leaders, experienced snowboard instructors, seasoned mountain bike guides, first aid & CPR trainers, Rescue 3 swift water rescue technicians, avid backcountry leaders, certified divers, life long surfers, marine biologists, history buffs and naturalists. Our staff’s wide knowledge base and years of experience, compounded by certifications in specialty skills, safety practices and medical trainings, gives us the ability to outfit expeditions in almost all wilderness conditions and areas of interest.
Outdoor Adventures is focused on safe & solid instruction! The passion, experience, and diversity of our staff provides a dynamic and rich safety based instruction that make up every class, clinic, tour or expedition that Outdoor Adventures offers. Our comprehensive cross training in various fields allows our instructors to deliver the most current methods, styles and practices while at the same time mixing what is tried and true. Outdoor Adventures offers classes in beginning, intermediate, and advanced sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, snowboarding, & mountain biking as well as single day trips or multi-day expeditions. We offer sea kayaking, white water rafting & kayaking, mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking, snowboarding, surfing, and diving.
Outdoor Adventures is active in our community! OA has and is very active in the Eastside’s at risk youth. Outdoor Adventures staff led by Bill Corson has helped in the building of the tagging walls to help the youth express its self legally. OA has helped in the formation of teen centers, teen feeds for the Eastside homeless youth and has created numerous programs for the at-risk youth like soccer programs and after school programs. All of Outdoor Adventures staff are involved in these activities, donating their time and efforts toward the alternatives that outdoors has to offer: we are building up the next generation of adventurers.
Outdoor Adventures is a piece of a bigger puzzle! OA is Affiliated with the following organizations, clubs, and associations: Wave Trek, Tofino Expeditions (WKI), Orion Expeditions, Reachout Expeditions, Glacier Bay Expeditions, Outdoor Recreation Opportunities, Redmond, Kirkland, and Issaquah Parks & Recreation, American Canoe Association (ACA), Leave-No-Trace, Washington Water Trails Association (WWTA), Rescue 3 International, American Heart Association, Washington Kayak Club (WKC), Trade Association for professional paddlers (TAPP’s), Professional Paddle Sports PPA, and Cascadia Community College.