Hey everybody! I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday!

Ascent Adventure Consultants has some REALLY exciting things planned for 2009. One of them is the plan for the blog. We will be following a weekly schedule, having each day be dedicated to a different topic. What are those topics, you ask? Here they are:

1. Mondays- Trip Reports
2. Tuesdays- Fitness and Training Tips
3. Wednesdays- Business and Corporate Training Advice
4. Thursday- Climbing Techniques and Tools
5. Friday- Environmental Issues and Advice
6. Saturdays- Miscellaneous Items that We Want to Write About!

So make sure to check back to read what interests you!

Over at the “Facilitator’s Corner Blog” at OutdoorEd.com, Jim Grout of High 5 Adventure wrote an posting about how the outdoor adventure and experiential education industry has more and more regulations imposed upon it every year. He was encouraging professionals in the industry to remember “that the essence of what we do as adventure educators is to provide people with a powerful learning experience that is engaging, challenging, thought provoking, and fun.”

It is so important to remember that the reason Ascent Adventure Consultants exists is to provide this very type of experience for all of our participants on adventures and training courses. As soon as we lose this focus, our courses will be less meaningful and effective. Our commitment to all of our clients is to continue to provide engaging, challenging, thought provoking, and fun adventures and training programs. It is through this type of adventure and guiding that lives are changed.