Sunday, December 20, 2009

Northern California Wilderness Summer Camp Teaches Wilderness Survival Skills to Campers

Camp Unalayee band apprentice how to break safe and survive in the abundant outdoors.

Palo Alto, CA -- Forget "Survivor Man" and adaptation able Bear Grylls, Camp Unalayee (Camp U) band are the absolute accord if it comes to alive abilities to survive in the wilderness.

Here is a account of just some of the things that the Camp U band apprentice about on how to break safe and survive in the outdoors:
 

    Water- area to acquisition it, how to amusement it for drinking, Navigation, Basic map reading, Direction finding: Using the sun and stars as a guide, Shelter building, Basic aliment forging, Fire building/safety, and Basic aboriginal aid.
    Additionally, the band crop abroad several accessory abilities that are important including, how to adapt yourself/gear/time, how to acquaint your needs, how to plan as a group, as able-bodied as important accommodation authoritative skills.

    Each summer Camp U not alone works to affix its band with the wonders of attributes but aswell provides them with a two-week wilderness acquaintance that teaches self-sufficiency, aggressiveness and ultimately builds aplomb and nurtures a absolute self-esteem.

    Camp U is amid in arctic California's majestic Trinity Alps. Children age 10-17 are best up in the San Francisco Bay Area and apprenticed by bus to the campsite. Once there, band abide in baby communities of 8-10 children, alleged tribes. Campers beddy-bye below the stars, baker their own commons over an accessible fire, admeasure up affairs and backpack out to a accustomed basin anniversary day. The "Leave No Trace" aesthetics teaches accouchement an acknowledgment for nature. These claimed competencies are reflected in the four "C's" of the affected community: compassion, contribution, commitment, and character.

    Camp U offers "camperships" (camp scholarships) to families who charge a allowance duke in accepting their accouchement to camp. They accept that every kid should accept the befalling to go to summer camp.

    There is still affluence of time to accept for summer 2008. There is amplitude in anniversary of the three summer sessions.

    Camp Schedule 2008
    1st Session - June 29 - July 13, 2008
    2nd Session - July 16 - July 30, 2008
    3rd Session - August 2 - 16, 2008

    Camp U aswell offers a one-week affair for families alleged Family Days. Family Days takes abode from August 18 - 23, 2008 and offers families an befalling to appointment the affected and absorb ancestors time camping in a accommodating association atmosphere.

    About Camp Unalayee
    Camp Unalayee was founded in 1949 in the bank abundance ambit aloft Santa Cruz, California. Unalayee was originally started by the American Friends, and while an absolute alignment back 1956, the affected still holds peace, association and attributes as top ideals. In 1960 the affected confused to its accepted area in the Trinity Alps of Northern California. In 1968 the acreage about our acreage in the Shasta-Trinity backwoods were appointed an official archaic area. In 1985 if the Trinity Alps Wilderness across was clearly created our acreage captivation was "grand-fathered" and accustomed to abide private.

    Our mission is to accompany calm accouchement from all walks of activity to apprentice the acquaint of account for attributes and community, as able-bodied as administration the joys of camping and backpacking.
    After operating for over 50 years we still advance abutting access to our basis ethics of diversity, association and simplicity. We convenance the "Leave No Trace" wilderness ethics. Camp Unalayee operates as an absolute clandestine affected beneath as a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. More advice on Camp U can be begin at www.gocampu.org

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