High Adventure sponsored by Renewable World Foundation is a unique one-of-a-kind outdoor youth expeditioneering group. The group’s focus is the development of self confidence, outdoor skills, and respect for the great outdoors and the environment. Our activities strengthen leadership abilities, create cohesive groups with kids from many different Midwestern towns, and give youth the skills they need to cope with high stress situations. This occurs through extended and rugged trips to wilderness areas using silent sports like backpacking, canoeing, and biking.
Why?
Find a new viewpoint,
Feel the breezes on a mountain
Float down a tumbling river
Follow, carefully, a rocky trail
Face your fears, expand your curiosity
Fulfill an unknown dream
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”Baba Dioum
Team members are youth, both boys and girls ages 13-20 years old. The youngest should choose a shorter trek unless they know they will not suffer from homesickness. (We run a few week long treks for this reason like biking and canoeing the Namekagon River.)
Multiple Areas
Team members and coaches come from many areas in the Midwest: Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. 80% of the kids come from our OSEP (Outdoor Sustainable Education Program) schools as we get to know the kids and they know us.
Our trips base out of multiple areas, depending on the leadership and where the trip is heading out to. This base camp is where everyone meets up the first day and gets their food and gear. Clam Dam cabin in Danbury,WI is the base for St. Croix/Namekagon canoe trips, Quetico canoe trips, and MN side Isle Royale backpacking trips. Wyoming, and other western trips base out of Neshkoro, WI. Eastern trips and East end of Isle Royale trips base out of Norway, MI. Biking trips depend on where the trip is going that particular year.
Depending on trip logistics like where the trip is going, where the kids are from, and the coaches going on the trip, there is a possibility that certain kids will need to plan on coming or going home a day early or a day late.We will know this after trip has filled up and all leader positions are filled.
Leaders
Leaders are always needed. Any youth whose parents would like to get involved are welcome to join the program if we are in search of a leaders for that year. All first year leaders will get teamed up with a Renewable World Foundation personnel trip leader.
At least 1 of the trip leaders needs to be certified in Wilderness First Aid and know how to run all of the equipment to train the 2nd leader. In addition, one leader must have CPR training for Canoeing trips. Two adult leaders must be present for safety concerns. One trained leader and one parent are good. One of the leaders must be a woman if girls are going on the trip .