Instructor Orientation is in full swing here in Washington State and I am incredibly impressed with our 2013 instructor team. They are an exciting and impressive team of role models. The caring and inclusive camp culture our instructors are forming will serve as a model for our students as we build our Adventure Treks […]
Adventure Treks Trip Leader retreat is in full swing. Our 19 member leadership team has gathered in a cabin near Mt. Hood Oregon next to the Salmon River for 5 days of senior staff training prior to our full orientation which begins on June 11th. Our 15 Trip Leaders and 4 Regional Directors hail from […]
While we’re confident you’ve been packed and ready for your adventure for weeks (wink, wink), here are a couple videos and some friendly reminders to help simplify the process: How to pack for your adventure: Your Daypack (a school bookbag is perfect) ID/passport Put your cell phone, medications, iPod, wallet, passport, and return ticket in […]
Adventure Treks students consistently say that a highlight of Adventure Treks is making great friendships with students and instructors from across the country and around the world. Knowing people’s world views are partially shaped by the communities in which we live, making friends with people who have had different life experiences is a wonderful opportunity. […]
We are excited to announce our 2013 Adventure Treks Instructor Team. This year we will have a total of 70 instructors. They average 27 years old, hail from 21 different states and collectively have 220 years or an average of over 3 years of Adventure Treks experience apiece. Over 60% of last years instructors will […]
You can feel the excitement at the AT office build as the countdown to summer accelerates. We can’t wait to meet our students for whom we all come together each summer. Boxes of brand new outdoor gear arrive in our warehouse daily and Instructor Joe Sisti has joined us to help organize and divide all […]
Congratulations to our many high school seniors who will soon be graduating and heading off for college or a gap year. Below is a list of the schools they will be attending. Congratulations for successfully steering through the stressful college “sorting hat.” We hope you have chosen a school that is a good fit for […]
I just read a fascinating book by Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography. It posits that though technology is making the world “flatter, much of Geopolitics and macro human behavior is still defined by Geography. One of his points, one also made more subtly by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel, is that few […]
It’s starting to feel like spring in Western North Carolina. We are still getting in as many ski days as we can, if you are willing to liberally interpret what we do on skis in the NC mountains as skiing. We have now moved into overdrive mode in preparation for what we intend to be […]
We are not among the legions that see technology as an evil to be feared. (We love our I-phones). However, we do believe we should think through the ramifications of how technological changes affect our children before we automatically embrace the next and newest gadgets. To our knowledge no one has yet written a parenting […]