beoutside.life · Coming 2026

Bring the trail
into your classroom.

Packaged outdoor learning experiences built for teachers who want their students to feel the land — even when they can't get there.

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15+ Years in the classroom
450+ Students on the San Juan River
100% Human-made, human-felt
Tent at canyon camp at golden hour, Bears Ears country
The Origin

Born on a hillside. Built for every classroom.

During Covid, Stu Baggaley hiked to the mouth of Birch Canyon near his house, broadcast his surroundings live on Zoom, and taught an outdoor poetry lesson in real time. Students stepped outside wherever they were — backyards, apartment steps, driveways — wrote their own poems, and came back to share.

It worked. And it stuck.

Be Outside is the evolution of that moment. Pre-recorded trail and river experiences, experienced with teacher and student guides, ready for any classroom to use — no field trip budget, permission slip, or nearby trailhead required.

San Juan River canyon walls
San Juan River · Bears Ears
Rafts on the river at dawn
Dawn on the River
Group hiking the Mt. Naomi trail
Mt. Naomi · Bear River Range
How It Works

A real place. A real experience.
In any classroom.

1
Buy an experience

Choose a trail or river experience. Each experience includes filmed footage, a teacher guide, and student learning materials — everything you need to run it Monday morning.

2
Bring the place into your room

Play the footage with your class. Stu narrates from the trail, modeling observation and inquiry. Timer footage lets students work while the landscape rolls behind them.

3
Send them outside

Students step outside wherever they are — the school yard, a sidewalk, a park — and apply what they learned. Then come back and share. Breathe for Change moments open and close every experience, holding the whole thing together.

Experiences

Every experience is a place
with a story.

Each Be Outside experience is built around a real location — its geology, its ecology, its Indigenous history, and what's happening there right now. Bears Ears is in a federal land dispute that's been in the news for years. The San Juan River is at the center of water rights fights across the Southwest. Mt. Naomi sits in a national forest navigating grazing, recreation, and conservation pressures. These aren't just places to visit — they're places where real decisions are being made. Students learn to read a landscape the same way they'd read a headline.

Mt. Naomi trail — looking down on a neighboring peak
Experience 01 · Mountain
Mt. Naomi

From alpine meadows to the summit ridge, students identify the plants and rocks of Utah's high country while following the Haudenosaunee story of the Great White Pine — and what it means to build peace from the ground up.

Fall 2026
Bears Ears panorama — students on the ridge overlooking the San Juan River
Experience 02 · Land & Rights
Bears Ears

Who has rights to this land? Students research and debate Indigenous sovereignty, mining claims, and ranching heritage in one of America's most contested landscapes.

Winter 2026
Rafts on the San Juan River at dawn
Experience 03 · River
San Juan River

Canyon walls, cottonwoods, and the living history of one of the most storied rivers in the American Southwest. Ecology, observation, and place-based storytelling on the water.

Spring 2027
Summit rocks with lichen and mountain views

"The outdoors is for everyone — including teachers who feel stuck inside."

Philosophy

Outdoor learning isn't just about nature.
It's about whose nature gets centered.

Be Outside is built on culturally disruptive pedagogy — centering Indigenous knowledge systems and the voices outdoor education has historically left out. All content is human-made and human-felt.

Place-Based Learning

Every experience is rooted in a specific place — its geology, ecology, and the communities who have known it longest. Location isn't backdrop. It's curriculum.

Culturally Disruptive

Grounded in CLASP research on Indigenous pedagogy. We ask whose stories get told about a landscape and work to expand that circle.

Human-Made, Human-Felt

Every frame is filmed by Stu. Every word is written by hand. The experience you get is real — a real place, a real voice, a real moment in the field. That's what makes it land differently.

Whole-Child Wellness

Breathe for Change practices run through every experience — not as add-ons, but as the rhythm that holds the learning together. Students arrive, breathe, observe, and leave differently than they came.

Stu Baggaley on the trail
The Founder
Stu Baggaley
Educator · Researcher · Outdoor Learning Designer

15 years in the classroom. 450+ students taken down the San Juan River through Bears Ears country. A researcher, a handpan player, and the person who once hiked Birch Canyon on Zoom to prove that outdoor learning doesn't need a field trip bus.

M.S. Learning & Technology Western Governors University
Doctoral Student, ITLS Utah State University
CLASP Researcher Culturally disruptive pedagogy · Spencer Foundation · Published 2020 & 2024/25
Breathe for Change Certified Educator
6th Grade Teacher Edith Bowen Laboratory School, USU
Sunset over mountain lake with birds in flight
Get Early Access

Be first on the trail.

Experience 1 — Mt. Naomi — launches Fall 2026. Join the waitlist and get early access, a discount, and updates as we build.

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