If you’d like to “climb every mountain” or “follow every byway,” especially those unfamiliar, Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Outdoor Recreation offices — Northwest Adventure Center on Lewis North and Adventures Unlimited on McChord Field — have some exciting new trips in this country, as well as international trips planned to help you “ford every stream,” or “follow every rainbow ‘till you find your dream.”

The international trips are new, beginning with last month’s 10-day rock climbing expedition to the Frey, Northern Patagonia, in Argentina.

“The Frey with it’s beautiful golden granite spires is an incredible rock climbing destination,” said John Dorman, a recreation specialist with Adventures Unlimited’s Alpine Club.

In addition to viewing what Dorman called some incredible scenery, he said the nearby town of Bariloche was welcoming and friendly with all the modern conveniences travelers desire.

The JBLM group “enjoyed three days of amazing Argentinian food and wine before spending five days climbing and exploring the massive granite spires of Cerro Catedral,” Dorman said.

Although exhilarating and at times exhausting, the trips are fairly carefree in terms of planning, according to Dorman. That’s because Adventures Unlimited plans all the logistics, travel and guiding of participants, so they “get to enjoy the trip without worrying about flights, equipment or time lines. They simply arrive, sit back and enjoy an amazing adventure,” he said.

The trips are open to anyone with base access, as well as up to three guests per person with access. Although the trips already are priced lower than most planned trips available off base — due to Outdoor Recreation having its own equipment — prices can be cut even lower for those who opt to use separate military-offered flights and join up with the rest of the trip, according to Outdoor Recreation representatives.

The next scheduled trip is expected to be a hit with local adventure seekers. Joint Base Lewis-McChord tourists leave Feb. 6 for a skiing and tourism trip to Garmisch, Germany.

If you’re not already on the list for that trip, don’t worry; your ship hasn’t sailed without you. There are plenty of additional trips planned in coming weeks and months, including: ice climbing at Lake Louise, Canada, Feb. 16; rock climbing at Red Rocks, Nev., March 9; and skiing in Hokkaido, Japan, March 13.

A dozen more trips are planned from April to December, with adventures ranging from a helicopter, volcano bungee jump in Pucon, Chile, and a yoga retreat in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, to a photography trip in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Christmas shopping in Garmisch.

One reason the list of adventures is a bit eclectic, as well as exciting, is the trips are planned by a six-member crew of experienced recreational leaders who aim to share the adventures they’ve already experienced or have on their personal bucket lists.

For example, 27-year-old Alisha Bator has been an outdoor recreation specialist with Adventures Unlimited for about one year and has an extensive background and education in travel and therapeutic recreation. Dorman also has recreational leadership training and is an avid mountain climber with more than two decades of experience. Dorman previously served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the military and as a climbing ranger for Mount Rainier National Park.

Each of Adventures Unlimited’s guides had the opportunity to plan a handful of trips this year, and they also will get to lead those trips, Bator said.

Bator said she’s especially looking forward to leading the trip to Garmisch. She lived there for about two years while working with another military installation.

“Garmisch is phenomenal,” she said. “It’s a very friendly, wonderful place and it’s very beautiful.”

She also planned and will be leading the skiing trip to Japan in March, for which she has prior ski instruction training, in addition to experience working for Carpe Diem Education, a multicultural educational experience for youths in Southeast Asia.

“All of the trips are going to be wonderful,” she said. “If you have the belief you can do anything, you can do or go anywhere and you can climb Kilimanjaro or come back from somewhere with a new Facebook friend from Egypt. The potential is unlimited.”

In addition to trips already planned, staff can plan additional trips based on suggestions of individuals.

“We’re always willing to plan if people suggest something else and as long as there is enough interest,” she said.

Length of trips vary, based on location and events planned. Although most day trips with Northwest Adventure Center and Adventures Unlimited have a 24- to- 48-hour cancellation and refund policy, the new trips have a similar policy but work with service members if there are extenuating circumstances, such as being deployed, Bator said.

“We plan these for our service members and their families so we try to work with them when we can,” she said.

For more information, email jblmadventuretrips@gmail.com or call 253-967-6263.