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Find Yourself in the Middle of Nowhere5 Questions to Ask a Summer Program
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In the Heart of the Rockies
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What We’re Reading: House of Rain
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Part outdoor adventure story, part autobiographical opus, and part anthropological investigation, this popular book by Southwest Colorado resident Craig Childs creates a vivid picture of the people who inhabited the Four Corners region a thousand years before. Childs immerses himself in some inspiring but unforgiving areas of Colorado, New Mexico, …
Featured Photo: Comb Ridge
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This photograph, taken on our Wilderness Leadership program, shows the majestic height and length of the unusual geological formation known as Comb Ridge, Utah. Comb Ridge is a giant sandstone “monocline” that runs 80 miles north-south, in the center of the Colorado Plateau. Incredibly, the San Juan River actually cuts …
Join Alum’s DH Rally!
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Deer Hill alumnus, Brad Crescenzo, (River & Mountain 2000 and Multi-environment Challenge 2001), is organizing an awesome driving “rally” across the Southwest in celebration of, and to raise funds for, the Deer Hill Foundation. Brad, who was recently graduated from Colorado College, has been putting a ton of work into …
Sunrise over Mesa Verde
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DHE Survey Shows Satisfaction
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Christopher Hohman, of Santa Rosa, jumps into the Colorado River this summer
Something happened recently that gave all of us at Deer Hill a thrill of pride. Last week we received the results from the Summer Search Foundation’s survey of Deer Hill participants. Summer Search is a wonderful organization that seeks …
Alum helping others with TV
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Life on “the Rez”
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What We’re Reading: The Hopi Worldview
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This book is absolutely wonderful if you have an interest in Native American history and culture. Frank Waters’ “Book of the Hopi” gathers material from interviews with 30 elders from the remote Hopi reservation, describing their spiritual heritage in rewarding detail and sharing some of the secrets of their annual …
Featured Photo: Historic Service
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Deer Hill and The Tandana Foundation
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Deer Hill alumni and field leader Anna Taft works on intake for a medical clinic in Ecuador’s remote highlands with the Tandana Foundation
Anna Taft, an alumni and longtime Deer Hill leader on our adventure summer camps, wrote this piece about how her Deer Hill experiences shaped the development of a …
Anatomy of a Service Project
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Stanford chats with Matt Aranow and Mia Burkhalter, of the Ancient Pathways program 2009, while they take a break from Hogan building.
Caroline Goodman, a Program Leader with Deer Hill, wrote this piece about her community service project in the Navajo Nation in 2009 with the Ancient Pathways adventure summer camp …







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