Change is good?

Change is good, right? As humans, we often don’t like change. We tend to like things just the way they are, the way we know them to be. GOAT (legally speaking, Great Outdoor Adventure Trips, Inc) officially became it’s own organization on March 20, 2009. In just over 10 years since, we’ve seen a lot […]

Meet the Interns: 2016

Meet the Interns: Abi

Some people call her by the first part of her name (Abi), some call her by the last (Gail), we picked the middle and call her Beagle. Abi is a junior at University of Georgia in Athens and spends her spare time hanging out with her middle school WyldLife students or watching Netflix.

Meet the Interns: Breton

Breton comes to GOAT all the way from Chicago, Illinois. Not only is he our first ever intern from Chicago, he’s our sweatiest intern – he rides his bike everywhere. Breton has one more year before he graduates from Moody Bible Institute with a degree in Biblical Studies and music.

Thank You Joey

This blog post took me a while to write. I started over, and started over and realized I would never be able to write everything that I truly felt. Everything that grows encounters change. Plants, people, organizations – all change as they grow. And often times, we as humans don’t like change. Over five years […]

Unseasonably warm February

Enjoying the unseasonably lovely start of February with the doors open at Adventure Team. You won't find a better group of people to spend your Monday nights with. ?? #summerforever #rockclimbing #climbinggym #bouldering #youthministry

A photo posted by Great Outdoor Adventure Trips (@goattrips) on Feb 1, 2016 at 3:36pm PST

We’re coming for you, summer

We're coming for you, summer. This cold weather today has us feeling very #summerforever. Warm days and cool mountain lakes are in our future. Here are a couple of shots from our four day canoe trek around Lake Jocassee with our Adventure Team this summer. Hopefully it gets you excited. #yeahthatgreenville #mylandmark #jocassee #lakejocassee #canoe #paddling #adventure #getoutside #nonprofit

A video posted by Great Outdoor Adventure Trips (@goattrips) on Jan 19, 2016 at 10:20am PST

Training

Not even halfway through our planning session for our 2015 fall break trip – our Adventure Team had an epiphany. They realized that we were going on a serious rock climbing trip and that meant they needed to get serious about rock climbing – it was time to start training. We climb nearly every week […]

Planning

For over six years, we have been planning, coordinating and executing the highest quality outdoor trips possible for at-risk kids all over South Carolina. Since 2009 we’ve provided these trips for free for over 6,000 students and have meticulously planned each trip. As we began to plan more advanced trips for our Adventure Team students, […]

Fall Break 2015

Our Adventure Team program is by far the coolest thing that we do at GOAT. It began as an accident a few years ago and has since grown to be a part of everything we do here. You can read more about the program on our website, but the short of it is that the […]