Our Camp Staff
The staff is composed of head instructor, Mark Wienert, with hand-picked student and adult volunteers who exhibit outstanding leadership qualities.
Nature and your child
"Wilderness has a monumental transformative effect on our children. It is not enough for them to learn about nature only in the classroom or a walk in a park. To know this deep and transforming experience a child must be immersed in wildness. Immersed in the sights and smells and sounds of nature." ~by Mark Wienert
Field Guide to Nature and Survival For Children says:
"Keeping children always confined to houses, buildings, cars, and heavy clothing will eventually cut them off from what life is all about. You take away all possibility for them to really feel the intensity of life...By encapsulating our children, we cut them off from the feelings of anything real, and we teach them to resist the forces of nature...If you are going to the beach, the woods, the swamps, or the wilderness, really get into it, roll in it, and get rid of all protection that will separate you from fully appreciating where you are. Become alive, not removed and insulated, and teach your children to do the same." ~Tom Brown Jr.
