Outings Leadership Training

Outings Leader Training (OLT) is a foundation of all Sierra Club outings leadership. Angeles Chapter's OLT includes the same online e-learning modules that all outings leaders must take, as well as our Seminar and reading materials. See our Seminars page and our Leaders Reference book (LRB )page.

Leader Candidates are required to complete the 8-modules of the online course as part of our seminar  Our LTC Registrar connects with candidates ahead of a seminar to ensure they are doing the right course. 

Certified Angeles Chapter Leaders must update their knowledge of Club and Chapter Policy through completion of OLT (or equivalent Seminar) within four years, prior to the outing. To satisfy the OLT requirement to refresh or renew your understanding of policies you'll need to do these items below. Your other option is to take a Seminar, which includes this same material + our scenarios.  If your OLT is long expired, please contact LTC Admins as you may need to retake our Seminar.  

  1. Read Part One of the new Leader's Reference Book (LRB), 2022 August Edition. Part One consists of Chapters one through five. See the LRB Page. Please be sure to read Chapter 2A "Sierra Club Values and History" which includes a description of the Standards of Conduct.  Please also read the 2021 Sierra Club Affirmative Standards of Conduct, and the Equal Opportunity Policy (how issues are handled), a document on inappropriate behaviors.
  2. Equivalent to Item 1: attend virtual Leadership Training Seminar.  The Leadership Training Seminar incudes the same reading, online OLT and homework but is a more comprehensive review and includes our scenarios. 

AND, Recommended, not Required... We advise everyone to understand the forms we use. Look over when to use the Medical Forms and Safety Management Plans on the FORMS page. Be familiar with the online Incident Reporting and review the Rules of Conduct page. Refresh your understanding of navigation by reading chapter 6 in the LRB, Part Two.   

> Let your outings chair know when you have completed OLT, including how and when you did it. Your OLT renewal is good for four years from the date you completed it.

Glossary: 

  • OLT = Outings Leadership Training, a National program that Angeles Chapter satisfies with its own program.
  • The LRB = Leader's Reference Book. Covers Chapter and National standards / requirements.
 

For Outings Chairs

When your leader refreshes their OLT

For OLT updating, see above requirements and note that in Leader Management the old "OLT 101" and “201" are labelled “historical.” Current is just now just  OLT.   See more on our Leader Database page.  If you are updating someone’s OLT: for Certifying Organization, please write "LRB + materials."  LTC will note attendance at a seminar as "LTC (or LTP) Seminar + (online) OLT." 

About "101" and "OLT201"

There is no longer an OLT101 or OLT201, there is just OLT.  With the launch of Campfire Leader Management, we will cease to track the old OLT201. 

 201 was a prior National Sierra Club training that Angeles leaders automatically attained when they attended and passed our seminar. At the National level, this training was devised to provide leaders with the skills to address issues that may arise on longer duration, more remote outings. Our LTC seminar covers these topics.

Questions? Ask LTC Admin Team members or the Safety Committee