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Weekend Trips

We will send you an email a week before your trip, with all the details and how to prepare/pack.

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2025 Fall Quarter Adventure Trips

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​Aspens Group

Sept 21: White-water padding day! This will be the start of a white water padding progression, where the girls will learn the necessary boating skills to be able to paddle more advanced rivers in the future. (8.30 – 5.00 pm).

Nov 15 – 16: Climbing weekend trip. We’ll be heading out to Stone Depot to climb and rappel all day on Saturday. We’ll be camping out at the end and will figure out what we could climb on Sunday before heading home! This is a great opportunity for a vertical fun challenge! (8:30 am Sat to 3:00 pm Sun)

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Oaks Group

Sept 14: Paddling 2.0 adventure day! After getting our skills up over the summer camp, this day trip will be a great way to show off our skills as we complete a mini expedition on the lake. As always lots of fun as well as skills like canoe rescues! (8.30am – 5.00pm)

Oct 19: Adventure day trip – details still to be finalized. (9.00 am – 5.00 pm)

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Redwoods Group

Sept 20: Paddling Day Trip at Lake James! This will be a fun mini expedition across the lake, finding cool places to swim and explore as well as looking deep into the lake for the church steeple of long lost Fonta Flora! The girls will be developing their paddling skills so they’ll be able to run some white water in the future.

Nov 8 – 9: Backpacking weekend adventure! This trip will be perfect for contiuning our skill development from the summer trip. Girls will learn all the key backpacking skills, especially campcraft, setting up tents, cooking, cleanup, bear hangs as well as the other skills like navigation and working together as a group to support each other! It’s special to all be out in a beautiful place camping together (9.00 am Sat – 3.00 pm Sun)

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Saplings Group

Sept 28: Paddling trip on Lake James. This will be a grand adventure for these young ladies, learning all about canoes and how to steer them. So much fun swimming and practicing rescue skills. (8.30 am – 5.00 pm)

Oct 26: Climbing Day trip – this will be such a fun day out with some rock climbing and personal challenge. It’s also so key to be out there supporting each other doing things like this! (9.00am – 4.00 pm)

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Boys Foxes and Wolves Groups

The Boys Wolves & Foxes Weekend trips are combined for both groups.

Sept 6th: Paddling adventure day 2.0! We’ll take all the skills developed from the summer program and go for a mini expedition across Lake James. There’s some cool places to find and explore as well as all the water fun swimming and practicing canoe rescues (8.30am – 5.00pm)

Oct 5th: Adventure day trip (details still to be finalized) (9.00 am – 5.00 pm)

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Dogwood Boys Group

Sept 13th: White water paddling adventure day trip! This will be the start of a white water padding progression, where the boys will learn the necessary boating skills to be able to paddle more advanced rivers in the future. (8.30 am – 5.00 pm)

Nov 22/23: Backpacking Weekend Adventure. This is a great opportunity to get out together for some real fun together as a group. Lots of skills these guys can share and teach each other. We’re hoping to get everyone’s skilled up for a potentially epic summer of 2026! (8.30 am Sat – 3.00 pm Sun)

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Coyote Boys Group

Sept 27th: Paddling Day Trip at Lake James! This will be a fun mini expedition across the lake, finding cool places to swim and explore as well as looking for signs of long lost Fonta Flora! The boys will be developing their paddling skills so they’ll be able to run some white water in the future. (8.30 am – 5pm)

Oct 25/26th: Backpacking Adventure weekend trip. This will be a great opportunity for these guys to all get out together in their own group. Boys will be able to help teach each other the various skills to be successful and everyone will learn a lot. These trips are the biggest skill builders – all the campcraft and personal skill development combined with working together in a group – it’s going to be a lot of fun! (9.00 am Saturday- 3.00 pm Sun)

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