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New End of the year Class Trips or overnight options!!
Our
partnership with Coutts-Moriarty Camp provides their specialties like
the 30' tall climbing walls and high ropes course, the cabins for
sleeping, and Lake Salem for swimming, kayaking, canoeing, and fishing.
Call Jason or Annie @ 673-5638 or email programs@siskinea.org for more
info.
Challenge & Adventure Programs We believe that taking appropriate risks, testing limits, meeting and overcoming challenge, and adventure itself are all important life experiences integral to achieving personal and group growth. While traditional teambuilding initiatives can be an important part of this process, success is often dramatically increased when combined with real life adventures and challenges in the natural world.
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Wilderness Survival Skills
Each year our regional papers report on the all too often tragic stories of lost hunters, hikers, and skiers. In this class students work together in small teams to construct effective. seasonally appropriate, survival shelters, build one-match fires, and put other practical survival knowledge and skills into action.
Life in the Cold
Part winter ecology and part wilderness survival, this program explores the unique and exciting challenges and adventure potentials that our region’s hearty winters provide. A canvas wall tent with a small woodstove serve as our base camp from which we make forays to build snow shelters, learn winter related first aid basics, and practice a number of winter survival and living skills. Students also have the opportunity to tend the base camp and cook over our wilderness stove. This program can also be brought to any school that has a access to a small wooded area.
Canoeing
Whether used as a stand alone activity or as a component of a larger program, canoeing has become an important tool in our education repertoire. After receiving instruction in canoeing basics, participants put their canoes in the water and put cooperation, communication, and trust to the test as they work with their paddling partner to execute turns, portage over beaver dams, and take in the beauty of the Clyde or other local rivers.
Northern Forest Adventure
This multi-visit program begins in your classroom with discussions and activities that explore the geography, history and culture of the Northern Forest’s rivers. Additional visits happen on the water as students build canoe skills and gain experience on a variety of regional rivers. Work continues in the classroom as students come together in small groups to plan an overnight river canoe trip and campout.
Navigation Challenge
Drawing from the adventures, challenges, and lessons of both historical and contemporary explorers, students work in small groups to navigate through the forest from one land mark to the next with the aid of a map and compass. Each location holds a new challenge ranging from physical group challenges to problem solving scenarios that require the skills, expertise, and hard work of each of the group members to overcome.
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