Bowdoin’s Leadership Training program requires more than 350 hours of learning. When they are done, participants in the program will be certified as Wilderness First Responders, be proficient at map and compass navigation, understand trip planning and logistics, be able to use and fix all kinds of gear, and cook in the wilderness ““ skills they can put to use for outdoor adventures for years to come. But the most valuable skill, the one they will use in their jobs, their community work, and lives, is the one perhaps hardest to teach ““ how to lead.