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Sweyolakan Outdoor Experience
Grades 8 & up
Meet your Sweyolakan Outdoor Adventure Staff
All levels of experience are welcomed on most of our courses offered through Sweyolakan Outdoor Experience. If you have never slept outside then we will teach you. If you have more experience, then we will teach you to lead a group of your peers. While in camp, you will stay in the historic boxcars in the Sailors unit. Please note that these weeks cannot be combined with Extra Spicy Options.
Program Overview
Our Sweyolakan Outdoor Experience program offers opportunities for learning basic and advanced camping skills in a variety of outdoor activities: cooking and baking in the back country, map and chart reading skills, and creating low impact shelters. In addition to learning camping techniques, each camper will learn minimum impact camping based on the seven principles of Leave-No-Trace®. Each camper will receive an Outlook Evaluation of their skills development so that they realize and appreciate what skills they have learned, which ones they excelled at and which ones they could improve upon. We will keep a copy of Outlook Evaluations from year to year to track individual progress of returning campers.
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| Backpacking/Whitewater Rafting | June 30-July 7 | $630 |
$580 |
$530 |
Join our two crazy enthusiastic staff members on this fun trip! Start by whitewater rafting on the Clark Fork River. Then enjoy two nights/three days backpacking in the Lolo Wilderness area. Doesn’t get better than this! Extra permission required. |
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| Mountain Pack Horse Trip | July 7-11 | $525 |
$475 |
$425 |
Explore the mountains of Idaho on horseback and camp in the wilderness. Enjoy having supervised responsibility for your own horse while on the trail as you develop Western riding skills. You’ll learn rope weaving and make your own reins. Your days will be packed with horses and learning! Open to experienced riders only. Pre-screening required. Extra permission required. |
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| Wild Water Week | July 14-21 | $630 |
$580 |
$530 |
You might dry out – but not for long! A week jammed full of fun in and on the water! A kayak trip, a whitewater rafting trip on the Clark Fork River, and surf ‘n sail right in our own Mica Bay – lasers and wind surfers (as wind permits, of course). Extra permission required. |
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| Ranch Camp | July 21-25 | $575 |
$525 |
$475 |
Learn the basics of horse handling from Bat Masterson – an expert wrangler! You will have supervised responsibility of your “own” horse. Days at the ranch will be spent learning – about horses, their care, and more! Even with no previous experience, you can ride on the trails. Extra permission required. |
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| Rock Climbing & Tubing | July 28-August 3 | $540 |
$490 |
$440 |
Learn climbing, traversing and rappelling. Have a great time developing skills and challenging yourself in rock climbing, team building and so much more! For a change of pace, enjoy an inner tube float down the Spokane River. Extra permission required. |
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| Sailing Week | August 11-15 | $455 |
$405 |
$355 |
Sail all week on Mica Bay as you learn to handle a laser. Challenge yourself while you have a wonderful time mastering these small sailboats! You choose to try out the new wind surfer and sailboats, too! Come join the Grand Admiral. End the week with a fun regatta and perhaps your name will be on the trophy! You’ll have a blast! Open to all & suitable for beginners! |
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| Voyager | August 15-22 | $530 |
$480 |
$430 |
| Strive for your spot on this 3-night trek as you interview with the Camp Director and the trip counselors for a chance to go on the Voyager Trip. Be ready to tell why YOU should be one of the 6 campers selected to go! Hundreds of past Sweyolakan Gypsies canoed down the lake on this trek and often wrote the winning band song for Gypsy week, too! | ||||
Meet your Sweyolakan Outdoor Adventure Staff
April “Miss April” Moe, WFR - Instructor
Miss April is a 5-year Sweyolakan staff member. Her experiences at Sweyolakan and beyond has sparked a deep love of the outdoors, the environment and a strong desire to share that with campers. Miss April has been high and low ropes instructor and the Adventure Trip Director. Her education includes: three months in New Zealand with the National Outdoor Leadership School doing white water canoeing, sea kayaking and backpacking; Wilderness First Responder; American Red Cross Lifeguard; Leave-No-Trace Trainer. She is pursuing an Outdoor Education Degree. When not studying, April is out backpacking, rock climbing, winter camping, snow boarding and doing various white water sports.
Blake “Mr. Blake” Dickson, WEMT- Instructor
Blake, a 14 season Sweyolakan alumnus, started as a camper, completed the Counselor-In-Training program, and four years as a counselor in the high school unit and on the waterfront. Last summer he spent a month in Alaska with the National Outdoor Leadership School doing an Outdoor Educator course while kayaking and backpacking. His education includes: Wilderness EMT; American Red Cross Lifeguard; and Leave-No-Trace ® Master Educator. During his youth he competed in horse shows and he helped lead Sweyolakan’s horse trips. He is working toward a History degree with an Outdoor Education Minor at the University of Montana. When not in school, he likes to ride horses, snowshoe, mountain bike, and white water kayak and canoe.
Check out our Sweyolakan Outdoor Experience Brochure!
Please contact Camp Fire USA Inland Northwest Council for more information.
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