Aerie Experiences is offering one week Wilderness Expedition Camps tailored for young men and women aged 8-17. Participants will spend eight days and seven nights exploring the south east’s scenic wilderness and their own infinite potentials. Our strength based, prescriptive program is designed and sequenced to build confidence and competence through challenge and accomplishment readying the participant for life’s transitions and challenges, such as schooling, preparing for college, and everyday stressors such as socializing and networking. This course is intended to:

 Be Fun
 Encourage independence
 Coach self-advocacy
 Instill a sense of responsibility
 Develop self-reliance
 Solidify and expand identity development
 Provide opportunity for role testing


The program is designed to be fun, exciting, challenging and to inspire enduring recreational
pursuits. Program activities include:
 Canoeing
 Hiking & Backpacking
 Rock climbing
 Rappelling
 Adventure based counseling activities
 Basic camp craft
 Fire starting
 Camp cooking
 Water purification
 Plant identification
 Wilderness navigation

Our Campers:
Our programs are designed to offer wilderness and camp experiences for nontraditional campers. Ideal candidates for this program include children and teenagers navigating:
 Learning Disabilities
 Autism Spectrum Disorders
 Neurobiological Disorders
 Aspergers Syndrome
 Pervasive Developmental Delays
 Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
 ADHD

Our campers come from loving and involved families but at times struggle with home, school or social environments. Whether due to poor understanding of social cues, language processing issues, inattention or other learning deficits, many of our campers have struggled to establish and maintain meaningful and positive relationships in some mainstream environments.

Through adventure-based counseling activities, close cohort living and interdependence our participants will have the opportunity to:
 Discover individual strengths
 Identify and practice effective communication habits
 Build friendships
 Build community
 Improve ability to function within a group.
 Enhance group trust levels

Over one hundred years of wilderness, educational and therapeutic experience between our staff and no more than a 4:1 student to staff ratio ensure the safety, individual attention and accommodation needed to provide for a meaningful and memorable experience.