Empowering Expeditions
We lead youth on incredible adventures in the wild outdoors to develop wise decision making skills, build self–confidence, encourage curiosity, and foster a love of nature’s beauty.
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” –Henry David Thoreau
We believe in first–hand experience of the wild world and not a picture on a screen. The world is beautiful and vast, and we have unprecedented access to images and information all the time.
There is no replacement for experiencing the cool wind and fragrance of wildflowers when you wake at dawn on a mountainside.
An adventure doesn’t have to BE risky to FEEL risky. One of the best ways to build resilience in children is to give them a challenge that feels risky and give them the opportunity to succeed. All of our adventures are built with this principle in mind.
Wild Adventure
Adolescents who have the opportunity to fail without judgement, and then learn from those failures, are children who learn to embrace curiosity.
We build confidence through competence. We don’t do things for children when they are struggling, we ask a lot of questions and lead them toward solutions they discover on their own.
Connection builds character and working together as a crew encourages reckless compassion. We teach children to frame other’s challenges as an opportunity to practice empathy and compassion.
Everyone has their own story and we bring positivity and encouragement to every situation, even when the outlook is bleak.
Go Outside
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” –John Muir
Removed from the constant input and stimulation of phones, computers, televisions, screens, cars, advertisements, sounds, and chaos we explore the wide world. When we are small silhouettes on the horizon, using our bodies to travel, our homes on our backs, we connect with the ancient, life–giving energy of a long walk in the woods.
Sure, our bodies will be tired, but that tired comes with refreshment for our souls and freedom for our spirits.