Military Teen Adventure Camps |
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How would you like to spend time whitewater rafting, hiking, rock climbing, winter camping, skiing, sailing, backpacking, exploring the environment, kayaking, running rope courses, practicing wilderness skills? What if you could do these activities with other military youth just like you?
Well, here is your chance! Through a special partnership between the Department of Defense, Office of Military Community & Family Policy and the United States Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food & Agriculture, military youth ages 14–18 can experience (at little to no cost) a variety of high adventure camp opportunities throughout 2011 and 2012. These high energy, high adventure, and high experience camps are being funded all across the United States—from Alaska to Georgia and states in between. This is the perfect chance for you to experience the outdoors as you never have before! Each camp offers a unique outdoor camping experience that will allow you to build your leadership, self-confidence, and teamwork skills while participating in activities like camp cooking and archery. You will make friends and share experiences with other military youth just like yourself.
How to learn more and register
To join in the fun and meet other military youth from across the country while enjoying an exciting high adventure camping event, check out the list below. There are many different camp opportunities for teen campers. The primary audience for these camps are military teens in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. The camps are listed chronologically.
Worried about transportation costs? Each camp has funding available to assist with transportation costs depending on the distance and your method of travel.
For more information and registration go to:
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Cutty Sark Wooden Sailing Ship Adventure: San Juan Islands
April 30–May 1, 2011
May 14–15, 2011
September 17–18, 2011
September 24-25, 2011
Participants: 16
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Sailing, camping, hiking, games, and FUN
Ropes Course/Methow River Rafting: Chelan & Okanogan Counties
June 15–19, 2011
TBD, 2012
(Dates subject to change based on weather conditions)
Participants: 18
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Ropes course activities, camping, and river rafting
The Great Alaska Road Trip: Alaska
June 24–28, 2011
Participants: 54
Ages: 14-18
Primary activities: Camping, hiking, mountaineering
Visit Alaska on a high adventure road trip that includes camping stops with tons of fun along the way. Activities include hiking, mountaineering, using a GPS, and much more in Denali National Park and Preserve and at the University of Alaska Fairbanks rocket launch and research facility at Poker Flat. The camp will not only be high adventure, but also offer great opportunities for team-building through camp set-up, tear-down and campfire cooking. Campers who live outside the Fairbanks area or are not within a 2-hour drive will fly into Fairbanks for camp.
Contact: Rebecca Bruntz
(907) 474-2402, rfbruntz@alaska.edu
Mountains-to-Sound Adventure Camp: Camp Robbinswold
June 26–July 2, 2011
Participants: 60
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Backpacking, kayaking, canoeing, ropes course, and traditional camp activities
Ropes Course/Hiking/Camping/Rock Climbing:
North-Central Washington
July 11–15, 2011
July 25–29, 2011
Participants: 8 per trip
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Ropes course, hiking, camping, and rock climbing
Camping/Hiking/Wilderness Trip:
North-Central Washington
August 8–12, 2011
August 15-19, 2011
Participants: 8 per trip
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Ropes course, hiking, camping, and rock climbing
Outward Bound Experience: Chelan County & Okanogan County
August 1–5, 2011
Participants: 25
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Hiking, camping and rock climbing
Exploring History & Nature: Chelan County
October 23–24, 2011 (subject to change based on weather conditions)
Participants: 16
Ages: 14–18
Primary Activities: Hiking, camping, games, nature mapping
Downhill Ski and Snowboarding 
Trip: Stevens Pass Ski Area
December 29, 2011
December 30, 2011
Participants: 16 per trip
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Downhill skiing and snowboarding
Downhill & Cross-country Ski Trip: Mission Ridge Ski Area
December 29, 2011
December 30, 2011
Participants: 16
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Downhill skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing
Animal Tracking & Snowshoe Adventure: Chelan County
January 7–8, 2012
January 21–22, 2012
February 11–12, 2012
February 25–26, 2012
Participants: 16
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Snowshoeing, wildlife tracking, nature mapping
Deschutes River Rafting Trip: Central Oregon
April 9–14, 2012
Participants: 12
Ages: 14–18
Primary activities: Whitewater rafting, camping
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