Expedition or Base Camp Format Trips
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Base Camp, Expedition or Day Trips |
Expedition Format
This is simply the best experience you can possibly offer your
students! After an initial gathering at our base camp, we’ll
all
head out for a true expedition. Depending on our mode of
travel and our destination, sleeping accommodations may take
the form of traditional tents, tipis or snow shelters. Choose
just one activity or skill, or combine two or more for a multielement
expedition.We can help you create an expedition
within New England or beyond, that will provide an invaluable
experience for your students.
Base Camp Format
Spend all your nights at our base camp and head out on a
new trip each day. Every afternoon you’ll return to a traditional
Mongolian yurt (circular dwelling) or tipi for a warm
meal and sharing circle at the day’s end. Base camp format
programs can focus on one skill or incorporate multiple
skills/sports depending on the length of the program.
Day Trip Format
Kroka’s day trips are a great way to bring your class together
in a whole new environment, offer them a chance to learn new skills
and a new way of relating to one another. All our day trips will
require teamwork, initiative and leadership from within the group.
You will be amazed by the group’s accomplishments, the leaders
that emerge, and the relationships that are forged on every Kroka
program.
ROCK CLIMBING
All grades, May-October
Climbing is great fun! It is an intimate dance with the rock and
students excel at it. Life is good “on belay” (being attached to
the rope and safety system): you can make mistakes and still feel
safe. By going climbing with kids, we allow them to experience being
“on belay,” and to experience providing support and taking responsibility
for another being; both are concepts which extend into their everyday
lives. Kroka fosters an environment where one wants to push their
limits and everyone wants them to succeed as well, where the collective
energy allows people to soar.We believe that it is equally, if not
more important for students to learn how to belay their peers and
trust being belayed by others, than for them to climb multiple routes.
The success of a climbing day will bring joy and cooperation into
the classroom environment.
INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED ROCK CLIMBING TRIPS
offer new levels of learning and challenge to groups that have completed
basic climbing instruction.
SWIFT-WATER CANOEING
Grades 6 and up.
Easier trips are available for lower grades. Mid-April - October
When the Studebaker Rapid appears around the corner, the real test
will be in front of you. The rapid will give you grades and you
will see why you needed to study for the test. On the canoeing trip
there are three layers of responsibility: responsibility for learning
your own skills, responsibility for communicating with your partner,
(sometimes under stress) and responsibility for the group’s safety.
After two miles of flat-water instruction and a “big rapid” test
students are rewarded by four to six miles of swiftly moving water
with fun and challenging, yet friendly, rapids. A picnic lunch and
swimming add to the fullness of an exciting day on the river.
WHITE WATER CANOEING
Grades 7 and up, Mid-April-October
This is the next step in our white water progression, for groups
that have gone swift water canoeing with Kroka. This day provides
the opportunity to master eddy turns, peel outs and ferries, and
to establish a close relationship with the river Goddess SAL (an
acronym for speed, angle, lean); three techniques we use while teaching
white water paddling. This trip opens up an amazing world of white
water for the participating group.
WHITE WATER RAFTING
Grades 6 and up
with a scaled-down version of this trip available for grades 1-5,
Mid-April- October All aboard! During the first half of this trip
students gain an understanding of the power of moving water and
the right ways to work with it. Raft teams practice boat maneuvers,
self-rescue and take turns in the guide’s position. After lunch,
students elect the best guide from the group and continue for the
final stretch of the day on their own, putting their new skills
to the test and polishing their teamwork and communication, while
their instructor follows nearby in a canoe or kayak. There are four
to eight people in each raft. Trips are held on class II and III
white water.
ADVANCED WHITE WATER RAFTING
Grades 8 and up, Mid-April - October
Groups who have completed a white water rafting trip and at least
one of the canoeing trips are given an opportunity to raft challenging
class III – IV white water. Here, a high degree of concentration
is required and everyone needs to be able to work hard and be prepared
to swim through rapids and self-rescue if they fall out of the boat.
This is an unforgettably fun opportunity that must be earned through
hard work on preparatory trips.
OTHER DAY TRIPS:
On request, Kroka Expeditions can organize map and compass orienteering
workshops, caving trips, winter trekking trips and wilderness living
skills workshops.
Please contact us for details.
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