Adventurous Journey

❝ It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off too. ❞ — Bilbo Baggins
J.R.R.Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

The Adventurous Journey is a standalone requirement of the Achievement Pathways. Your Adventurous Journey is a way for you to get out, explore, and put in place the skills you have learnt during Scouting. Your Adventurous Journey should occur whilst working on Milestone 3. (NOTE: The Achievement Pathways Adventurous Journey can be completed alongside the Duke of Edinburgh Award Adventurous Journey.)

❝ The adventurous journey is about applying skills and knowledge, and taking the opportunity to enjoy nature and its beauty, whilst simultaneously achieving a recognised outcome. It is what is learnt along the way that is just as important as the end result. ❞

The journey can be any type of “adventurous activity” human or nature-powered journey such as;

bushwalking
canoeing
cross-country skiing
cycling
kayaking
sailing

The journey should not occur in cars, trains, aeroplanes or as a four-wheel driving experience, and travel to the start and the end of the journey is not counted in the overall journey time.

Venturer Scouts and Rover Scouts – a 4 day, 3 night journey
This should be extending knowledge and skills, posing a challenge to the Venturer Scout or Rover Scout whose journey it is. Adventurous journeys in these older sections could take many different formats. Ideas include:

Planning, doing and reviewing a teams involvement in the Massive Murray Paddle
Hiking the Overland Track, Larapinta Track or even the Kokoda Track
Skiing parts of the Great Alpine Walking Trail
Journeys less about distance- riding a recumbent bicycle along a part of the Golden Pipeline Heritage Track in Western Australia, or sailing the coast (or part thereof) between Hervey Bay and the Gold Coast.

📄 Adventurous Journey planning guide August 2020 – Version 1.0 Scouts Australia Official Resource
📄 Reasonable adjustments (2021)

Please note: “Your Adventurous Journey should occur when working on Milestone 3.”
— p.45 ‘Adventurous Journey Overview’ in Youth Member Guide – Venturer Scouts