When it comes to unforgettable summers Bold Earth Teen Adventures has been leading the teen adventure travel industry since 1976. Our vision empowers high school students to feel alive, competent and part of a self-motivated team. Enjoy world class expeditions in rock climbing, white water rafting, backpacking, biking, sailing, kayaking, horse packing and service projects. Our hallmark is responsibility, commitment and inspirational leadership. Phone interview and references are required. Join us in Alaska, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Europe, Colorado, Thailand, Fiji, Bali, Australia, England, California, Washington state, Africa and beyond. More locations. More adventures. Trips of a lifetime.

Since 1973, Wilderness Ventures has been conducting exciting expeditions for beginners and experienced young adults, ages 11 through 20. Expeditions visit a variety of wilderness environments in the Western United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Europe, Australia, Central & South America, and the South Pacific for extended periods. Students learn outdoor and group leadership skills as well as gain an appreciation for various wilderness environments. Activities include backpacking, whitewater rafting & kayaking, mountaineering, biking, sailing, SCUBA, canoeing, sea kayaking, and community service. Participants come from nearly every state and several countries. Enrollment is limited, and applicants must submit school references prior to admission. Previous wilderness experience is not necessary.

Join Adventure Treks for two, three and four week Adventures for young adults ages 12 - 18 in the amazing scenery of the North American. How many teenagers get to Climb Mount Saint Helens, sea kayak with seals, rock climb famous cliffs, or raft big northwestern whitewater? Join students from all over the country and the world. Discover fun, friendships, adventure, community and growth. Program features a 1:4 instructor to student ratio. contact us today for a brochure and DVD.

“I tell parents they won’t believe their good fortune to have stumbled upon such a wholesome organization, with fabulous instructors, who use fun and adventure to tap into a facet of your child’s character, endurance, or personality that had never before found expression.”
F.D. Fields, parent from Pittsburg, PA

Rites of Passage is an old phrase. Our ancestors, the Native Americans, the Africans and many of the worlds cultures know its value.

Over time, many of us have lost the wisdom of the Rites of Passage. Now is the time to bring it back. Our ancestors knew how to live with the Earth. In todays world, we are forced into technology, materialism, subdivisions, cell phones, computers and on and on. It gets harder and harder to connect with Nature and our own natural cycles.

The Rite of Passage is a time to honor the individual that is in "change". There are 6 phases involved: Acknowledgment, Separation, Discovery, Silence, Initiation and Celebration.

We travel into the wilderness and we find ourselves, our true selves.

We will learn the Medicine Wheel and how it affects our lives. We will connect with the 4 Elements of Air-Water-Fire-Earth. We will learn how to make fire from our bare hands. We will think about our lives. We will spend time alone. We will discover who we are. We will learn to honor ourselves. We will begin to live.

During the silence phase, we will adventure into a time of quiet. The native people call it the Vision Quest. It is the most powerful experience that we know of. It is the climax of the Rite of Passage Journey. Once complete with the Vision Quest, the person will have transformed themselves into something new. This new person is one who they, themselves has designed.

Very powerful.

The Sweat Lodge is an ancient initiation, where hot rocks are brought into a small confined area. Within the lodge, we sing, silence and focus on our lives. It is a purification ceremony. It is cleansing.

Upon return, the person is greeted by some of his family members and life-long mentors. They meet "for the first time" ... again.

This journey is not for the light at heart. It is ceremony and ritual and it will change our lives... should we give it a chance.

Are you ready?

We invite you to join us.

Campers discover and grow through farm activities relevent to their lives now.

Animal husbandry is part of camp and includes the friendliest and most docile breeds of Swedish Gotland Sheep and lambs, American Guinea Hog Pigs and Piglets, Bunnies, Chickens, and our Border Collie/Aussie farm dog.

Each Friday grown-ups are invited to tour the farm with their campers between 2pm and 3pm.

Though introducing campers to a breadth of farm-based activities unavailable in schools, camp counselors have designed the program with “STEAM curriculum” in mind, to dovetail with the important K-12 themes of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. We intend for the camp to be a nice supplement to what kids learn in school. For instance, the gardening component of the camp will be provided in collaboration with the school-based garden at neighboring Hamilton Creek School.

Exciting activities each week, such as, but not limited to, the following:
milking goats, cheese making, fiber arts, woodworking, art and craft work, garden projects, nature hikes, creek exploration, boat making, fort building, and animal care and bonding.

Camp Directors/Farm Owner Brian and Michelle take great pleasure in watching their own three children grow up on the farm with a love a nature, a developing sense of practical knowledge, and a growing resilience fueled by life’s most difficult lessons. They want to share what the farm has to offer with the community in order to impart a sense of ownership to the land and fosters a lasting commitment to the natural world.

In rural Clackamas County, ten minutes east of Gresham, resides a school geared toward teaching children in a natural learning environment through the power of play. Whether the children are inside the classroom baking banana bread with a teacher, outside grooming horses, rolling down tumble-down hill, making jam out of the berries that the children picked on the farm or splashing in giant mud puddles, these children are learning through the five vital senses that allows them to internalize what they experience naturally and physically.

In a Child’s Path Farm School is offering summer camps to children of all ages this summer with each camp dedicated to main focus points. The camps are structured in a way that the learning ties together. For example, if a child attends camp for three consecutive weeks, the learning will not seem staggered; it will flow respectfully in a way that a child will learn best. Along with our music teacher, we will meet at camp starting each new week with a song that is relevant to our subject of learning along with open ended activities at different stations. The yard that the campers work in when they arrive each morning is comprised of six flower beds, a jungle gym, a large sand box, a play house, a rock wall and tons of room to run! After breakfast we could be found anywhere on the eight acres. The last hour of camp will be spent wrapping up the day in review and journaling our experiences. Each child will be given their own journal when they arrive their first day at camp with their own equipment for the week’s activities.

In a Child’s Path promote and encourages children to learn through their five senses. Smelling, seeing, feeling, hearing and tasting triggers sensors in the brain that allow a child to fully engage in an activity. When a child is engaged, their full attention is geared toward understanding everything about what it is that they are doing. To foster the learning that is already naturally occurring, a teacher observes and takes note always making sure that the child has the tools to continue their journey or simply finish a task. The teacher might ask the child, “Why do you think this is happening?” or “Why is it doing that?” These questions grease the wheels that are already turning. When a child is equipped with the necessary tools, the possibilities are endless. This is what In a Child’s Path promotes and strives for every day; a place where children feel like they belong as well as fostering a strong sense of relationship and community.

Join us at Adventure WILD Day Camp! Through Wonder, Inquiry, Learning and Discovery, your child will spend the summer engaged in the arts and science activities that will inspire and captivate their senses. Come have FUN with us! At Adventure WILD Summer Day Camp, we believe that authentic learning takes place when children are able to investigate and interact with the world around them. Through thematic and guided activities and with experienced educators, your child will laugh, learn, and make memories to last a lifetime. Not only will your child have an amazing time at Adventure WILD summer day camp, you’ll be supporting a part of Oregon's, Outdoor School. Through this unique opportunity, all of our proceeds of summer camp will work to benefit sending students to Outdoor School.