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Backpacking Courses
Ages: 12-17
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Find your roots in adventure. Find your roots with W.I.L.D. Develop lifelong outdoor leadership skills, confidence, and courage in our immersive backpacking courses. As you explore more remote locations of Alaska, gain experience to navigate and thrive in wilderness settings with all your life's essentials strapped to your back.
K'esugi Ridge Backpacking Expedition
Pick-up & Drop-off for "in class" days: Chena State Park Recreation Site (in town). Link: https://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/northern/chenariversrs.htm
Pick-up & Drop-off for "field days": Parking lot of Lulu's Bread and Bagels/Bankstown Bike and Ski, as we are a mobile business.
*Price includes: Transportation to/from trip destination, food, highly certified trip leaders, W.I.L.D.'s equipment (backpack, tent, sleeping bag, etc), and program shirt.
Age: 12-17
Difficulty: Strenuous
Distance: ~17 miles roundtrip
Participant Limit: 9
Participant to Trip Leader Ratio: Less than 5:1
No Experience Required; Good Physical Fitness Encouraged
Trip Overview:
We will spend a "classroom day" in-town to prepare for the trip both mentally and physically. Practice setting up tents, lighting stoves, discussing proper clothing, and repackaging food to fit into bear canisters. This day will be hosted in Fairbanks.
The next 4 days will be spent in the mountainous terrain of the Denali State Park. Here we will carry our food and home on our backs as we hike up to a ridgeline, hopefully sneak a peak at Denali, and continue to learn and hone essential backpacking skills.
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