The High Sierra

Granite peaks, towering Sequoias and starry nights, the Sierra Nevada are a 400-mile-long mountain range which runs the length of California and beyond. 

Our High Sierra course areas include Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas. Every summer, from our base camp in Midpines, CA, just outside of Yosemite National Park, we provide opportunities for nearly 350 participants to experience a deepened sense of ability, confidence, power and freedom in themselves through wilderness experiences.

Native Land Acknowledgment

At Outward Bound California, we work with thousands of students in the Sierra Nevada Range. When we share, protect, and learn from a space, it’s important to understand and acknowledge the place’s past, present, and future, and to understand our place within that history. The High Sierra Course areas lay on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Northern Paiute, Western Mono/Monache, Central Sierra Miwok, Southern Sierra Miwok, Eastern Mono/Monache, and Tübatulabal peoples* who have cared for this land since before California was a part of Spain, Mexico, or the United States. We pay our respects to these native peoples for their commitment to Mother Earth and its peoples, and for their work restoring their land and revitalizing their culture.

*This is not an exhaustive list of tribes present in the High Sierra, but represents specific regions through which Outward Bound travels. Our Midpines base property is on Southern Sierra Miwok land, CLICK HERE to learn more about how to support their fight for Federal Acknowledgment.