Got Two Feet?  You Are So Out of Here!

Calling all teen girls to hit the trail together as we go on 3 overnight backpacking adventures in the glorious Catskills and Adirondacks. On each trek, for two days and a night the trail will be our guide as we visit vistas and explore new horizons. Step lightly on the trails, build your strength, get to know the backcountry, and finally chill out at base camp with trail food, hot chocolate, laughter and stories.

Also included are 3 trekking “Clinics.” We will learn backcountry skills, wilderness first aid, share gear, learn how to pack uber-light and live simply out of your backpack. Each trekking adventure will be preceded by a specific Clinic. Clinics will be held at Tweefontein Farm, home of Esperanza, Ashley, and friends.

Lead by Wild Earth Women Instructors – Esperanza Gonzalez, Ashley Suprenant, Becca Nelson, Amy Little, Paula Kucera

Winter treks will be to a warm cabin or yurt.  Level of difficulty: Easy to Moderate, Level of Challenge: Awesome!

Program Information

Who: Teen Girls ages 13-15

Dates: 3 daytime Clinics and 3 Overnight Trekking Adventures (10 days)

11/15: 12-4:30 Clinic: Welcome and backpacking basics

12/5-12/6: Overnight Trek in the Catskills (warm shelter)

12/20: 1-4:30 Clinic: Winter Backpacking, and Snowshoeing, Solstice Celebration

1/9-1/10: Overnight Trek in the Adirondacks (warm shelter)

3/13: Clinic: Wilderness First Aid* (back-up date: 3/27)

4/30-5/2 Overnight Trek (2 nights)

Cost: $375 plus $25 facilities fee

*Wilderness First Aid Clinic does not include the cost of individual certification

Click here to Register

Please call Paula Kucera at 845-256-0469 or Amy Little at 845-255-0822  with questions about the content of this program.  Call David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 or email at david (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org with questions about registration.

A Learning Journey in Earth-Based Education & Self-Empowerment for Inspired & Aspiring Adult Leaders

“What is my gift to this world?”

“How do I shape my voice?”

“What is the nature of the fire that burns inside of me?”

“This gift, this voice, this fire that I carry; How may I share this ‘all of me’ with the world so that the world sees me and returns my gifts anew?”

These questions are the bright stones we carry.  They speak to us in a language warm and persistent.  We hold and turn them, feeling their weight, and we ponder their promise of a life well lived.  These questions are the guiding lights of our awakening spirit.

We invite you to journey with us through the year as we explore these teachings through a deeper connection with the land, the elements, and in a circle of community.  Wild Earth is offering a monthly 24 hour immersion experience for a core group of dedicated wilderness instructors: young adults whose gifts we recognize and whose voice we support.  This gathering is designed to activate our survival strategies, our sensory awareness and our knowledge of place, and to strengthen our connection to Self while exploring the raw stuff for the creation of culture anew.  It is an adventure by design that will empathically deepen our abilities as mentors and broaden the mentoring strategies available to us in our work with youth.  Included will be specific skill development opportunities with local specialists, explorations of life-stage journeys (medicine wheel), creative design of ceremony, sacred fire practices, talking circles and much more.

We offer this in service to the vision of a powerfully creative and connected community of young adults willing to risk being fully engaged in the art of giving and receiving Life.  We hope you will join us.

Program Information

Age: 18 years old +

Experience: Instructing (or assisting) in a Wild Earth, Track & Sign or equivalent nature based learning program.

Dates: 11/7, 12/12, 1/2, 2/20, 3/20, 4/24 & 5/15

Time: 10am – 12 noon the following day.

Location: New Paltz / High Falls, NY area.  Exact location to be announced

Cost: $175 for the year-long journey.  You will also be asked to bring food to share for the overnight experience.

SORRY!  THIS PROGRAM IS FULL AND NO LONGER OPEN TO REGISTRATION.

Please call Charles Purvis at 845-626-2474 with questions about the content of this program.  Call David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 or email at david (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org with questions about registration.