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Field Camp
Outdoor Leadership School
Ages
13-16
Field Camp Outdoor Leadership School – Basic
We
had another great year at our third year of Field Camp
Outdoor Leadership School. We kept busy during the first
week with a hike in the St. Mary’s Wilderness area, a
shake-down campout in the Shenandoah, and many hours of
lessons and discussions in outdoors skills and leadership
principles. During the second week, we hiked roughly twenty
miles on a southwestern Virginia section of the Appalachian
Trail. Highlights from our hike included summiting Mt.
Rogers (5,720 ft), seeing wild ponies, and crossing some
beautiful mountain meadow terrain.
Based
on last year’s experiences, we decided to cut back our daily
hiking time in order to free up our evenings for more
leadership instruction. This change worked well for us and
helped the group to bond through discussion and other fun
activities besides the physical challenges of each day’s
hike. Our group of campers included strong leaders,
excellent athletes, and highly entertaining storytellers.
They became supportive friends on the trail, looking out for
each other’s safety and comfort, cooking for each other at
camp, and always laughing together. We look forward to more
adventure next summer…!
We
anticipate a similar program for Basic Leadership
School in 2007. The curriculum and goals will remain much
the same, though the routes and destinations may change. We
encourage boys and girls ages 13-15 to
apply.
Field Camp Outdoor Leadership School –Advanced
For
graduates of the Basic Program, we are offering an exciting
new challenge in 2007! The Advanced Adventure trip is
a five-day program designed to present new outdoors
opportunities and challenges.
Day
1: Meet at Field Camp, quick introductions, lunch en
route to West Virginia, camp at group campground.
Day
2: All day guided rafting trip on Upper New River.
Day
3: All day guided rafting trip on Lower New River.
Day
4: All day rock climbing instruction and practice.
Day
5: Break camp, fun morning activity, late afternoon
return to Field Camp.
The
Adventure Trip is reserved for students who have completed
Field Camp's Basic Outdoor Leadership program from any
summer, including 2007. We will be utilizing hard
skills from the Basic curriculum as well as practicing good
expedition behavior. Meals will be prepared by the
group or provided by the guide service. We look
forward to lots of fun and physical challenges as we venture
into new areas of outdoor recreation.
Please click here for the
application form.

Leadership School participants for 2005 with instructors
Meredith Montague (foreground), and
David Montague (far right).
Meredith and David will return to lead both Leadership
Schools in the Summer of 2006.
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Whitewater Rafting
trip in WV
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Leadership School participants for 2004 |
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