Tagged With: teen adventure camps
Valuable Tuition Credit Prizes for Slideshow Attendees
Earn $1,000 Tuition Credit, meet WV alumni and engage in your local community. Just as our summer adventures connect great people through great experiences, our winter slideshows are a the perfect chance to learn about our summer opportunities live and in-person. In addition to offering the valuable opportunity to hear from former WV students and … Continue reading
Great Divide Mountain Bike
Stretching the spine of the Rocky Mountains between the Canadian and Mexican borders, the 2,500-mile Great Divide Bike Route is the world’s premiere off-road cycling track. Students on our beginner-friendly Great Divide Mountain Bike Adventure experience the route’s most spectacular stretches through Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Both Wilderness Ventures and our home town of Jackson … Continue reading
Wilderness Ventures in Your Area
Upcoming Slideshow Presentations Connect Families, WV Staff Members and Student Alumni. In an age when so many young people and their parents are “connecting” through social media, our winter slideshow presentations offer families an increasingly rare first person chance to thoughtfully explore their summer opportunities. While technology is changing the way people work, the … Continue reading
Bicycle Touring Adventures in North America and Europe
Discover inspiring places and fantastic faces at the perfect pace on a bicycle touring adventure. Since 1977, our student bicycle touring adventures have connected great young people with stunning cycling routes that are both encouraging and empowering. Our decades of experience has shown bicycle touring to be one of the most meaningful ways of … Continue reading
Bike Week in Jackson Hole
May may be “Bike Month” for the rest of the country, but in often-snowy (but always inspiring) Jackson Hole, we celebrate Bike Week during this first week of June. According to the League of American Bicyclists, Jackson Hole is a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly community thanks to ongoing cooperative efforts by governments, Friends of Pathways, … Continue reading
National Parks – America’s Greatest Idea
The National Parks fuel the American Soul thanks to their ability to provide shared ownership of natural treasures, foster a connection to the natural world and provide a legacy that we can pass down to our children. Like democracy, they are a uniquely American concept that has spread throughout the world thanks to a long … Continue reading
The Way of the Whisperlight: An Evolution in Camp Cooking
While the world’s first portable camping stoves burned animal fat and whale blubber as their fuel sources, the first mainstream, portable camping stove (the Primus) was invented in the late 1800s by Swedish factory worker Frans Wilhelm. Since bringing his original blow-torch-inspired, kerosine-fueled portable cooker to the masses in 1892, portable cooking technology has been … Continue reading
At Wilderness Ventures, We Know Our Whales
Discover the earth’s largest mammals on a magical Wilderness Ventures journey. While many of our fantastic leadership and teen adventure camps contain substantive marine biology components, few adventures compare to the chance to get up close and personal with whales. Several of our fantastic marine biology summer camp destinations offer the opportunity to experience several … Continue reading
Wildlife-rich Adventures
Connect with the coolest animals in their natural environments on these great teen adventures. Since 1973, we’ve been connecting young people with the outdoors in ways that build passion and wanderlust for the natural world. Part of how we do that is by visiting and having fun in the most beautiful environments on the … Continue reading
Boot Selection
Selecting Hiking Boots for your Wilderness Ventures Adventure. Wilderness Ventures combines fantastic people, environments and activities to offer the most fun and substantive leadership adventures on the planet. Our goals are to develop peer leadership skills, teach applicable outdoor skills and foster a conservation ethic and love for outdoor environments. We do this by … Continue reading