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About Outdoor Adventures
Outdoor Adventures is a Eco Tourism adventure travel outfitter company offering off the beaten path expeditions, trekking, multi-sport tours and adventure trips to the most popular destinations all around Costa Rica.
My name is Mauricio Odio and I am the Founder and Owner of Outdoor Adventures. In 1998 I decided to start with this adventure travel and expedition outfitter to share my passion for adventure and the love to the outdoors with more people. We design and operate all our adventure trips.
We have professionals specialized as adventure guides, with extensive experience and training in mountaineering, Search & Rescue, cartography and GPS, first aid and CPR - just to mention a few skills... -, that will make everything posible so you can enjoy the lush beautiful tropics, and turn this adventure in Costa Rica to an unforgettable amazing experience!!
The experience obtained by our professional guides and instructors across many years, practicing many adventure activities, like mountaineering, hiking, camping, jungle survival, rock climbing, speleology and caving, canyoneering, rappeling, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, diving and snorkeling, adventure racing, parachuting, paragliding, bungee jumping, GPS and cartography, outdoor and wildlife photography, first aid and even Search and Rescue, just to mention a few of our specialty areas, allowed us to consolidate a multidisciplinary team that will let you experience closely this and many other activities Many of our instructors have International Courses and Qualifications in several of these areas.
Besides working in this, we share the same love for all this adventures and extreme sports, and we try to take advantage of our free time to try new activities and explore new places and take more courses and trainings, that allow us to improve on a every day basis.
We take part of a continuous learning process, testing and evaluating the new equipment available in the market, developing and testing new techniques and methods, safer and more efficient that allow us to accomplish all this type of adventures with all the required safety and security.
"Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick, dont loose faith! I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did, you've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, KEEP LOOKING, don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. DON'T SETTLE." - Steve Jobs
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President and Owner - Expedition and Adventure Guide - Instructor
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 Mauricio, was born in San José, but raised in the Capital and in the Caribbean lowlands, both in a farm and in town. He began doing adventure things when he was just a kid, traveling with his father all around the country, and when just getting to the farm in the jungle, near Tortuguero, was a whole day adventure, with 4x4 in the mud, fording big rivers or using just two big tree logs as a bridge. Horseback riding, canoeing, walking in the jungle at the farm, and using a cable -like in the canopy tour- to pass over a river, where part of an average day at the farm.
No doubt why he began doing more adventurous activities later, like mountaineering, rock climbing, speleology, mountain bike, scuba diving, horseback riding, 4x4, canopy tours, canyoneering (certified guide by the ACA), white water rafting, kayaking and canoeing. He has been a volunteer in the National Search and Rescue Unit from Red Cross, for more than 13 years, being also an instructor for Search & Rescue, High Angle Rescue, GPS and Cartography, mountaineering and jungle, as well as a former second in charge Chief of the Unit.
Also as a volunteer he went to work in 1993 to Guyana in South America with a Canadian organization called Youth Challenge; and worked here many years in the Turtle Conservation projects both in the Caribbean and in the Pacific of Costa Rica. As a Consultant he is contracted by some hotels and companies to check the adventure activities and make the Procedures and Safety Manuals, according with the adventure regulations in Costa Rica He also enjoys outdoor and wildlife photography (almost all the pictures in this website where taken by him).
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What Our Customers Say
Read what some of our customers had to say after experiencing Costa Rica with Outdoor Adventures in the
Customer Reviews page.
"We had a fantastic trip with Outdoor Adventures. We got a chance to see the Arenal Volcano before we went waterfall repelling in La Fortuna! It was one of my best days in Costa Rica. Everybody was really easy going and the whole trip was really amazing. I would definitely recommend this company and I hope to come back and take another adventure someday!" Michelle Webb, Minnesota, USA
"I spent my birthday with Mauricio and Outdoor Adventures, and it was one of the best birthdays I've ever had! Everything was very comfortable and professional, and I really enjoyed myself the entire time, from the moment we were picked up through until the very end. I will remember this as one of my most exciting and fun adventures in Costa Rica." Amara Lewis, Virginia, USA
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Adventure Training
Outdoor Adventures gives the training you need to acomplish your adventures with safety and the right skills and procedures.
Rappel
Knowing the basics of Rope Descending and Ascending is the pass to more technical adventures.
Canyoneering
Learn from an American Canyoneering Association Certified Instructor
First Aid & CPR
Would you know what to do? Handling a medical emergency in a wilderness or dangerous place is serious business
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