Community Summer Outdoor Programs offer an ideal opportunity
to challenge your limits, learn new skills and explore the beauty and
variety of the Idaho wilderness. All courses are open to the public.
Registration Process
You may download a registration form by clicking the image to the right, or you may request a registration form by e-mailing mwade@communityschool.org. An electronically fillable form will be sent to you immediately. Fill out the
registration form and return it via e-mail or mail it to: Mike Wade, Community
School Summer Program Director, Box 2118, Sun Valley, ID 83353. If any course you have registered for involves off
campus travel, an "Assumption of Risk" form
and an "Emergency Release" form will be sent to you separately.
Backpacking
in the White Clouds
Learn to Kayak
Rock
Climbing: Beyond the Top Rope
Wilderness First Aid
Expedition Planning and Leadership (one term credit)
Thailand Youth Conservation & Adventure Trip
Backpacking in the White Clouds
Travel
through the high-mountain lake country of the White Clouds with two veteran
Community School teachers and outdoor educators who know where the lunkers
live. this trip has become a tradition for our summer program and a
rite of passage for those who love to fish and camp in the backcountry.
Students are encouraged to bring their fly rods; instruction in fly casting,
selection and presentation is an integral part of the course. You don't want to
miss the opportunity to spend time with some of our most avid outdoorsmen. This
course will fill up quickly.
Trip Leader: Pete Webb, B.A., M.A., Middlebury College
July 23-26
$525
Course details and packing lists
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Learn to Kayak
Community School Summer Programs in partnership with White Otter Outdoor Adventure invite you to spend four days learning to whitewater kayak safely and competently. We'll
meet at 8am on Monday, July 30th at the Community School in Sun Valley and
then drive north to White Otter Headquarters in Sunbeam, Idaho, on the
Salmon River. We'll spend the next four days and three nights
learning the skill and art of whitewater kayaking. The class will camp
together at Sunbeam. We will return to the Community School by 6pm on Thursday, August 2nd. Open to kids ages 12-18. No experience necessary.
July 30 - August 2
$450 (includes all boating equipment, food, transportation,
instruction and supervision)
$400 (if you have your own boating equipment)
For
additional information, please contact Rob
Landis at the
Community School (208.622.3960, ext. 121), or Doug Fenn at White Otter Adventures, (208) 788-5005, info@whiteotter.com
Course details and packing lists
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Beyond Top Roping:
Rock Climbing at the City of Rocks
Community School Summer Programs offers
this unique opportunity to spend four days learning the skills to go "beyond top-roping" to multipitch climbing and lead climbing. We
will meet at the Community School in Sun Valley at 7am on Monday, July 16th and
drive to City of Rocks National Reserve in southern Idaho for four days
of rock climbing instruction and camping. We will return to Sun Valley
by 7pm on Thursday, July 19th. Open to kids ages 12-18.
July 16-19
$450(includes all climbing gear, food, transportation,
instruction and supervision)
For additional information,
please
contact Rob
Landis
at the Community School (208.622.3960, ext. 121)
Course details and packing lists
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Wilderness
First Aid (W.F.A)
The Community School, in partnership with the Wilderness Medical Institute
is offering a two-day Wilderness First Aid Course. If you plan to spend
time in the backcountry or leading outdoor trips, you need to be
prepared. Fast paced and hands-on, this two -day course covers a wide
range of wilderness medicine topics for people who travel and work in
the outdoors. (If you plan on leading trips through the Community
School Outdoor Program, this course prepares you to do so.)
Open to rising 10th graders or older
Instructors: Wilderness Medicine Institute
Dates /Times: Saturday June 23-Sunday June 24
8am-5pm approx. (16 hours total)
Tuition: $215.00
Course details and packing lists
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Expedition Planning and Leadership(one term credit)
The course teaches the skills
needed to plan and lead a backcountry trip. Students will learn how to
select appropriate routes, research the area’s regulations, develop a
trip plan, communication plan, risk management plan, food plan and
equipment list, all within the context of planning their own
expedition. Students will also get hands on training in the care and
repair of equipment. The course will explore the fundamentals of
effective leadership and decision-making. Successful students will put
their new skills to work planning and leading their own expedition later
in the summer.
Teacher: Rob Landis, Outdoor Program Director, B.A., Boise State University
Dates: June 18 to July 6
Monday-Friday, 8:30 - 10:30am
Cost/Tuition: $1,000
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Thailand Youth Conservation & Adventure Trip
Community
School Summer Programs in
partnership with Mountain Spirits brings you this once in a life time
experience. Please read the full details of this amazing adventure at
the trip website. Open to students from 6th grade and up. Upon
returning, high school students taking this trip may take a shortened,
for credit history course related to the trip. Click the link below for a detailed course description.
July 11-29
Thailand Trip
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