For ages 11–17.
Mondays, 9:00 am–3:00 pm (with an overnight in spring!)
Location: 122 Daley Rd., East Chatham, NY. Get directions.
Fall Session 2025: 12 weeks (September 15–December 15; no program Thanksgiving week)
Winter Session 2026: 4 weeks (January 12–February 2)
Spring Session 2026: 12 weeks (March 2–May 18)
Full-Year Tuition: $1,900 — payment plan available
Fall Only: $825 — payment plan available
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We’ll craft around the campfire, build skills and competency in the outdoors, and learn and grow as a group as we:
- Push beyond our edge with challenging adventures
- Sink our teeth into primitive technology projects
- Hone our senses with awareness practices that are useful in the woods and in the human landscape
- Build naturalist and outdoor skills
- Create time for sharing the ups and downs of life
- Take one big hike in the fall semester, and do an overnight campout in the spring.
Curriculum areas are integrated into the rhythm and focus of our days. We study history by learning about the past and present-day ways that people related to the land, and science through expanding our knowledge of local flora and fauna, ecology, seasons, survival strategies and adaptations, and ethnobotany. Games, hikes, team-building exercises, balance and coordination, and sensory integration contribute to the development of fitness and body-awareness skills. Through journaling, storytelling, and communication, we practice using words and language.
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