Beyond Bend Overnight Summer Camps

Awesome Adventures in Awesome Places

TrackersPDX offers marine and kayak building camps located on the Oregon Coast, homesteading at an organic farm on the Columbia and survival skills in a private wilderness wonderland. For camps leaving from Portland, Oregon we provide an optional shuttles from Bend, Oregon or the PDX Airport.

TrackersBAY (San Francisco) offers camps of live action, foam arrow adventure, the opportunity to sail the great seas in the Windfish, our 46-foot sailboat and homesteading and wilderness survival camps among the great Redwoods. For Bay Area programs we offer optional shuttles from SFO airport.

Upcoming 2010 Trackers Earth Overnight Summer courses

Week 0

Ages 12-16 Bay Area Overnight Scout Team Marine Excursion June 14-18

Week 2

Ages 13-15 Portland Overnight The Tribe: High School Village June 27-July 3

Ages16-19 Portland Overnight The Edge: High School Village June 27-July 3

Week 3

Ages 10-13 Portland Overnight The Tribe: Middle School Village July 5-9

Week 5

Ages 8-13 Bay Area Overnight Wilder's Guild: Homsteading Camp July 18-23

Ages 8-13 Bay Area Overnight Ranger's Guild: Nature Skills Camp July 18-23

Week 6

Ages 8-13 Bay Area Overnight Wilder's Guild: Homsteading Camp July 25-30

Ages 8-13 Bay Area Overnight Ranger's Guild: Nature Skills Camp July 25-30

Ages 12-15 Bay Area Overnight The Tribe: Wilderness Survival Village July 27-30

Week 7

Ages 8-13 Portland Overnight Wilders Guild: Homesteading Camp August 1-6

Ages 8-13 Portland Overnight Rangers Guild: Nature Skills Camp August 1-6

Ages 14-18 Portland Overnight Build a Sea Kayak on the Oregon Coast August 1-14

Week 8

Ages 12-16 Bay Area Overnight Bluewater Scouts: Sailing Expedition August 10-13

Week 10

Ages 8-13 Portland Overnight Wilders Guild: Homesteading Camp August 22-27

Ages 8-13 Portland Overnight Rangers Guild: Nature Skills Camp August 22-27

Week 11

Ages 11-13 Portland Overnight Ways of the Ancients August 29-September 3

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Our Philosophy for Learning & Living

We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess