AGE GROUP: 13-15
6 DAYS
$726

Skills Camps are meant to enhance your outdoor experience. Leaving behind the logistics of expedition travel, there is more time to concentrate on hard skills. Master that river roll, lay back that crack, or start a fire faster than you can say Tom Hanks. Take a camp on its own, or in combination with an expedition, and watch your skills levels take off!

Dates:
July 6-11 , 2008
Spots Available: 10

IMPORTANT: All camps need a minimum enrolment of 6 to run. Each expedition has a maximum of 10 participants.

A WYLD EXPEDITION demands a lot from its participants. It asks you to lead your group and to follow, to be resourceful and creative and to explore and discover. It requires you to learn and master new skills, to build your level of fitness and confidence, and to work together with your team. In return, it gives you the opportunity to see and do things that you once could only dream of. It offers you the chance to push your self to the limit, and bring home more than you left with.

SURVIVAL AND WILDERNESS LIVING
The 6-day Earth Walker Skills Camp teaches you to not only survive, but to thrive in the wilderness. The focus of the camp is to strip away the extras and learn to use what nature has to offer. You learn to light fires without matches, build natural shelters to keep warm and dry, and even what to eat and how to prepare meals gathered from the wild.

Like every WYLD EXPEDITION, your group fully participates in every aspect of your outdoor experience - including setting up and breaking down camp, planning and cooking meals, working together as a group, and learning about your natural surroundings.

Expert instruction and guidance help you to achieve your goals. All of our instructors are highly qualified guides and outdoor educators, who endeavor to share with you their knowledge and experience as they teach you to live and travel in the wild.

ITINERARY

DAY 1
Your adventure begins when you are picked up in Campbell River and driven to your first campsite on Upper Campbell Lake. Here you are introduced to your group members and to your instructors. As you are camping for the week, your instructors will show you some of the basic equipment you need.

DAY 2
The beginning of the Earth Walker Camp is very skills based and focuses on teaching techniques needed to live in the wild. Learning to build fires and shelters are just a few of the first steps. You also look at carving with natural tools, making rope, cooking without pots, and identifying all that you can eat in the wild. Your goal is to master these skills so that you can depend on them. Your instructors also cover basic navigation and natural route finding to help keep you on track.

DAY 3-5
As the week progresses and your group's confidence increases, you trade off more and more of your conveniences (sleeping bag, tarp, matches, etc.) until eventually the group is traveling and surviving with minimum of “camping equipment”. Starting all your fires with a homemade bow drill, eating with a handmade cup and bowl, and sleeping in comfortable shelters built by you with only natural materials. This experience of doing more with less can build confidence and strengthen your appreciation and connection to the natural world around you.

DAY 6
Your last day sees you returning to Strathcona Park Lodge for a shower and lunch before you head back to civilization.

It's our hope that by the end of this week you have shared untold experiences with your fellow participants, learned many things about yourself and the people around you, and accomplished things you could have never done alone. The trust and teamwork that has grown between you and your group is an important key to the success of your course and ultimately, your experience.