For 7 days, you raft the Green River as it carves through Desolation and Gray Canyons - deeper in places than the Grand Canyon. This 85-mile stretch of river builds as you soon begin navigating Class II to IV rapids. You learn to read river currents, camp on sandy beaches, and prepare Dutch oven meals. At night, you hold Circle under the light of the moon and stars.
Live with Hopi Families
On vast mesas in northern Arizona, Hopi families welcome you into their lives and into their homes. Deer Hill and many of the Hopi villages have been collaborating for 15 years. Trust and understanding has built a powerful base for unique and worthwhile community service opportunities. For several days you live in the close-knit pueblo, where adobes stand side by side as they have for centuries. During the day, you work with Hopi youth mudding a traditional bread oven, you help the elderly tend a cornfield or you learn to silversmith. On the weekend, you and your Deer Hill friends may have the rare opportunity to be invited to a Kachina dance or ceremony that few outsiders have witnessed.
Bike in Aspen Forests
For 2 days you pedal a new 27-speed mountain bike through forests of aspen and spruce, enjoying the clean fresh mountain air. You ride on the diverse terrain of backcountry roads, challenging single track and mountain meadows. You improve your mountain biking skills in steady progression. Itineraries and routes are planned so that a Deer Hill support vehicle carries your food and supplies to rejoin your group at each night's campsite. Celebrating with a hearty meal is a well-deserved treat after a day of fun and accomplishment.
Rock Climb near Telluride, Colorado
Setting up a top-roping site and scaling a wall of granite can be exhilarating! In climbing camp, you learn the fundamentals of rope systems, movement on rock, and safety procedures to climb, belay, and rappel. Starting off with easy climbs to build your confidence, your instructors manage the climbing site to provide progressively challenging routes. Individually, you climb, finding hand and footholds, to ascend a rift in the wall. But you are not doing this alone. It requires competent support from your backcountry leaders, precise communication, and teamwork.
To conclude your 25 days of adventure, you and your expedition friends return to Deer Hill for a sweat lodge ceremony and a barbecue banquet.
Baldwin Saer
Little Rock, Arkansas
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