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WILDERNESS WORKS™ Camping in tents, sleeping in sleeping bags, cooking outside, carrying all you need, making new friends, and learning to see life from a different point of view! Join 5 other high school students on an extended wilderness camping adventure in Washington's beautiful North Cascades Mountains. You will make new friends while earning the 45-60 service-learning hours (depending on the length of your trip) required to graduate from high school. Already earned your service-learning hours? Then think ahead to standing out for college, scholarships, or employment by doing more than just what it takes to get by! The trip includes 5 - 10 days of trail work and a 7-day backpacking and arts workshop. Your adventure culminates with a public performance/celebration of the poems, stories and visual arts that you create in the backcountry arts workshop back in Seattle! SIGN-UP for one of our trips! SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE!! Click here to download the application form. July 5 - 16, 2009 Beacon Rock, Washington State Park This special 12-day trip will take us to the Columbia River Gorge! Beacon Rock is a huge monolith. Follow the links below for cool photos and other information about the area! From the top you can see 360 degrees of amazing views. We will be working in partnership with Washington Trails Association for the 3rd year to do challenging and rewarding trail construction work! WTA's staff will guide our Urban Wilderness Project team during the first week to build a rock wall, a puncheon and whatever else is needed to open up the trail to a cool new camping site! After the work is done our group of 8 will head out to backpack and reflect using the arts. Tuition: Sliding Scale $50-$1,400. Our goal is to make our programs accessible to everyone. Please pay what you can. Full scholarships can be requested. Beacon Rock Web Sites: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n5_v192/ai_15413377/ http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Washington/BeaconRock/VisitVolcanol http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/05/beacon_rock_has_a_stairway_to.html July 27 - August 13, 2009 Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park Spend 17 amazing nights working, playing, eating, and sleeping in the beauty of the North Cascade Mountains at Ross Lake. The Urban Wilderness Project will do a variety of work from building backcountry campsites along Ross Lake. As a team our projects will include building new tent pads, creating cooking areas, and hitch rails for horses. We also learn the importance of trail work along the East Bank Trail as we repair tread damage, and cut back of encroaching vegetation. UWP will also assist the plant propagation program in seed collecting of native plants, the pulling of invasive species, and the planting of native riparian species while we help with restoration of Dry Creek with woody debris and willow cuttings. Tuition: Sliding Scale $50-$2,100. Our goal is to make our programs accessible to everyone. Please pay what you can. Full scholarships can be requested. Cool Photos of Last Year's Trip Last August we went to Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park and Granite Mountain, Washington. Check out Photos from Last Year's Ross Lake Trip here. Contact Us Jourdan I. Keith, Founder & Director 206-464-8364 Office 206-579-5848 Cell urbanwildernessproject@yahoo.com P.O. Box 18874 Seattle, WA 98118 © 2004, Jourdan I. Keith site design by Kind Of 7.com |