AGE GROUP: 13-15
7 DAYS
$980

Skills Camps are meant to enhance your outdoor experience. Leave behind the comforts and challenges of the modern world and focus on yourself and the skills you already have and could learn. Start a fire without using a lighter, build your own waterproof comfy shelter and learn how to properly paddle a canoe. Take a camp on its own, or in combination with an expedition, and watch your skills levels take off!

Dates:
July 12-18 , 2009
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 is an experience of a lifetime. It asks you to lead your group and to follow, to be resourceful and creative and to explore and discover. You will learn new skills, you will get stronger and build up your confidence and last but not least you will improve in working together with other team members. You will get the opportunity to see and do things that you once could only dream of. It offers you the chance to push your self, and bring home more than you left with.

SURVIVAL AND WILDERNESS LIVING
Learn how to build a shelter. Build your own raft and paddle it across the lake to a remote island. Learn what plants and berries you can eat, and roots you can nibble on. Fish for trout and learn how to paddle a canoe or climb a bluff or two.

Earth Walker takes participants back in time. Back to the pre-X-Box, -SMS, and -PSP era; back to their roots. Earth Walker shows teenagers how to have fun without using the latest technology. There is no cell phone reception at SPL, and no internet or satellite television. In fact, Earth Walker is in theory a totally self-propelled camp. No motoized vehicles or vessels are used to get from A to B (after you arrive at SPL).

Earth Walker is a lodge-based camp and offers the best of both worlds - the comforts of Strathcona Park Lodge with its accommodation, sumptuous West Coast cuisine and comfy beds combined with the challenges of the pristine wilderness of Strathcona Park. To complete this experience there is also one wilderness nigth planned. Sleep in your own shelter on a bed of fern.

This 7-day, 6-night lodge-based camp gives teenagers the perfect introduction to BC's wilderness. Learning, facing fears, playing and making friends is what Earth Walker is all about. Led by two experienced outdoor educators (instructors), Earth Walker rocks!

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
Arrival, check-in and get comfortable at the lodge. Meet your instructors and get to know your fellow participants. Do some fun teambuilding exercises and in the evening challenge yourself on the High Ropes.

DAY 2
Primitive skills day. A day filled with all kinds of new experiences. What kind of berries are edible, which ones are not. Build a fire without using a lighter, learn how to cook above a fire, build your own shelter out of branches and fern. Make rope, tie knots, learn about wildlife and have fun in the bush. Let’s do some paddling in the evening and let’s talk about vessels. We will need it for the next day!

DAY 3
Learn how to build a raft and together with your instructors and teammates go at it. Once your raft is built, start paddling. See if it floats! And while you are on it, let’s do some fishing. Learn how to catch some trout quickly and see how to clean and cook it.

DAY 4
This day is all about rock climbing. Knots, harnesses, climbing techniques and safety. There are a couple of climbing routes on site and another 200 close by. Enough challenges for everyone.

DAY 5
Today we paddle away from the lodge and we will bring into practice what we have learned in the past couple of days. This is Expedition Day!

DAY 6
In the morning we will ‘no trace’ our campsite and paddle back to the lodge. After lunch we will debrief the week and relax, swim and fire up the sauna.

DAY 7
Packing up, wrapping up and departure.

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.