High Desert Survivor
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10 kid limit for this camp Our policy for small class sizes.
At first glance, it would be hard to see how someone could survive very long in the desert. Yet, at one point, many people lived off the abundance of the high desert alone.
Learn about the people who were here before you and how they were able to find everything they needed to live well. Find adventure in the land around you by learning how to use what you find to survive in the hot, dry conditions of the high desert.
Train the ultimate skills of bushcraft and wilderness survival, including: lighting fires with no matches, proper carving skills, finding water, making traps, primitive cooking, safely harvesting wild edible plants, animal tracking, building the best shelters for different situations, and much more. In this camp, you will establish your connection to the land around you, and discover the reciprocal relationship you have with your surroundings. The desert will take care of you, if you take care of the desert.
Please read every word on this page together with your child. Especially "A Good Fit?"
Register for High Desert Survivor
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Ages 6-8
$285
July 5-9, 2010 8:30am-3:30pm Pioneer Park, Bend, Oregon |
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Ages 9-11
$285
July 5-9, 2010 8:30am-3:30pm Pioneer Park, Bend, Oregon |
A Good Fit?
Before you register PLEASE READ the critical information below to help you decide if your program is the right match for you or you child. TrackersNW invests in families and students dedicated to maturity and accountability as a team. The experience of your child is heightened as these filters insure a safe, supportive and competent collaboration with both our instructors and all other team members (including students).
This program is a good fit for the child and parent who...
• trust one another
• are interested in and empathetic to the natural world
• crave a different way of experiencing and seeing both natural and modern world
• want to have fun
• possess a sense of adventure
• make intelligent choices
• display competent autonomy when needed
• can make and keep clear agreements concerning safety
• can help insure the safety of their peers and collaborators
• works diligently toward adult accountability, consequences and responsibility
• will come dressed appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• can be a real kid
• shares well with others
This program is NOT a good fit for children who...
• are not interested in nature & scout awareness
• are not empathetic for the natural world
• are being forced to come to camp
• cannot display competent autonomy when needed
• cannot make and keep clear agreements and choices concerning safety
• is kept inside all the time so may be uncomfortable
• will not dress appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is not okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• has trouble working with others and respecting the needs of other participants
Please note that if your child is positively working on behavior, we are willing to work with them and you with clear agreements
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
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