Bay Area Trail Blazers
Blaze a Trail
This is the time to explore further and have more adventures. During Trail Blazers the kids decide where they want to go. We do everything that a kid could ever want to do. We get muddy, play hide and go seek in the woods, learn archery with foam arrows.
All campers are part of the decision making process, while the instructor is there to keep them safe and gently guide them, the kids will help decide what their merry pack of rebel rousers will do from day to day. This could include making a camp fire, building a shelter, safe wood carving and much more.
Our instructors are there to facilitate the process and keep everyone safe, invisibly weaving lessons of lost-proofing, nature study and peaceful decision making into the days.
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Ages 6-8
$295
Get aftercare until 5pm East Bay August 16-20, 2010 9am-3pm Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA Map It |
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Ages 9-12
$295
Get aftercare until 5pm East Bay August 16-20, 2010 9am-3pm Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA Map It |
We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
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