Happy fall! Although your summer trip ended a while ago – and I’m sure you probably feel you have been back in school for forever, here at Adventure Treks, we haven’t even begun to slow down. it still feels like summer! We only had five days between ending our summer season and beginning our fall […]
Thanks for all you did to make Adventure Treks 2012 special! From The Blue Ridge Mountains to the White Mountains to the Rockies to the Uintas to the Trinity Alps to the Cascades to the Chugach, we sure had a lot of fun together. Have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend and enjoy this short “thank […]
The boarding announcement interrupted a great conversation between Caleb, Jesse, Henry and Instructors Tracy, Steph and I. The students quickly hopped on the plane and just like that… the summer was over… and so was the magic. The last nine trips ended as strongly as I can remember. The students formed close and inclusive communities. […]
The Adventure Treks season is winding down. I have just said goodbye to the wonderful Colorado kids and am eager to see The Utah students for their final night – then it’s on to Portland, Seattle and back to Portland. Meanwhile Alaska 2 is saying their goodbyes. But much is still going on! Cal Challenge […]
I’m on another Delta jet today, leaving the Blue Ridge trip and Camp Pinnacle for the Pacific Northwest to debrief with our Leadership Summit instructors (their trips ended yesterday) and help open the Pacific Northwest Adventure and Pacific Northwest Experience 2. I also hope to get some mountain biking or climbing in with Ultimate Northwest […]
During the summer, planes are the only opportunity where I can get enough uninterrupted time to jot down a few thoughts. I’m currently enroute to Anchorage to help with the opening of Alaska 2. It’s a typically busy day at Adventure Treks! 14 of our 15 instructor teams are doing great things with students while […]
I write this from 30,000 feet on a plane heading to Alaska to welcome two of our Alaska groups. It’s been a very busy week as we have opened up twelve trips in five days. Our office team needs to be commended for holding it together so well! I will manage to meet eight of […]
And the summer begins! Today we finished our 7-day Instructor Orientation in Washington State. We feel that it was a huge success. Since so many of our parents never get to meet us, Mike P. thought he’d make this video to share a glimpse of A.T. Orientation with you and to introduce you to some […]
Adventure Treks Instructor orientation begins today. We’ve been waiting a long time! As I write this, 63 Adventure Treks instructors are converging from across the country and around the world to our base camp in southern Washington State to begin 7 days of instructor orientation. This will be followed by another 5-8 days of orientation […]
“Teenagers develop an accelerator before they learn to brake or steer,” says UC Berkeley Developmental Psychologist Ronald Dahl. Humans are unique in that they have the longest and most protected childhood of any primate. How we spend that childhood has been changing. No generation has been more protected nor done fewer “practical” things than this […]