Summer Camp
Sparking a lifelong love for adventure
The Full Story
Why Choose Summer Camp?
“What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.”
- Bill Plotkin
What do we learn from summer camp at WOW?
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Learning hazards and safety: Gaining awareness of potential hazards like plants, animals, obstacles and more, we'll find the balance of taking risks and staying safe.
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Survival Skills: Touching on the basics of survival from shelter building, water purifying, edible plants, and fire building.
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Ancestor Skills: Learning about the skills and lifeways for living on earth that our ancestors used.
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Wildlife Tracking: Learning the mindset of the tracker including observation, pattern recognition and the art of questioning, as we explore tracks and sign of what animals are present around us.
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Plant and Trees: We’ll hone in our identification skills as we use plants and trees for medicine, edibles, fire and bush crafting activities.
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How do we grow summer camp at WOW?
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Resilience and Confidence: Gaining awareness and new skills in a new setting that we can take with us anywhere.
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Connection and Community: Meeting new friends, sharing our stories, and learning how to be with each other when things get tough or conflict arises.
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Teamwork, Communication and Problem-Solving: Finding our strengths, advocating for our needs, learning to listen to others and find solutions within a group to honor all.
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Recognizing our Gifts: Space to be ourselves, releasing the judgements of our inner voices and the outer voices of our culture, we can let our unique, individual way of seeing the world shine.
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Centeredness and Quiet Mind: Through core routines, we can match the rhythms of nature, breathing a little deeper and letting go of our busy every churning thoughts.
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- With Gratitude,
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Rose and Scott
WOW Co-Creators
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Wild Village Camp
Ages 5 - 8
Wild Village Camp
​9am - 3pm
​Ages 5 - 8
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Session 1: July 1st - 3rd
Tuesday - Thursday (3 days)
$200 (Sliding scale $170 - $230)
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Session 2: July 7th - July 11
Monday - Friday
$335 (Sliding scale $305 - $360)
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WILD VILLAGE CAMP: Let your young coyotes run wild for a week packed with adventure, intimate connection to nature, and fun new friends. Guides will introduce them to the wilds of the forest, learning awareness skills, plants, animals, birds, and ecology. We’ll play games to test their agility, stealth and capacity for fun that will have them howling for more. Our relationship with the natural world will grow though direct experience of fire building, wildlife tracking, navigation, shelter building and other wilderness skills. All this while building lifelong skills like teamwork, curiosity, adventure, resilience, connection, and more.
This program explores...
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Interactive nature games
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Unstructured free play
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Hands on exploration
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Wilderness skills like fire building, animal tracking, navigation, wild edible plants
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Inquiry based learning
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Fueling childhood passions
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Plant and animal basics
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Storytelling and songs
Session 1: Registration closes June 26th
Session 2: Registration closes July 3rd
Earth Survival Camp
Ages 9 - 13
Earth Survival
Session 1: July 21st - 25th
Session 2: July 28th - August 1
Monday - Friday
9am - 3pm
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Ages 9 - 13
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$335
Sliding scale $305 - $360
Earth Survival Camp: The adventure continues as our young ones gain independence, new skills, and seek adventure farther from the central fire. Join guides as we dive into the forest with a focus on how to survive and thrive in the wilderness. We’ll practice the essentials of fire building, shelter making, water purification, and wild food. We may find ourselves wrapped up in other adventures of navigation, knot tying, cordage making, bird language, wild crafting, carving, and more. Along the way, we’ll absorb naturalist skills through direct experience and interactive games that will test our physical and mental agility, stamina and awareness. And we won’t forget to play a few epic games along the way that will leave us dirty, laughing and connected with the earth, ourselves and each other in new ways. Throughout this experience, we’ll hold the wisdom of the ancestors as we pass these skills to the next generation of thriving, connected, and soulful humans.
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This program explores...
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Interactive games and cooperative play
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Survival skills and wilderness skills
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Hands on exploration of the natural world
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Naturalist skills
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Tool and sharps skills including carving
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Storytelling and songs
- Childhood passions
Session 1: Registration closes July 17th
Session 2: Registration closes July 24th
Bear Camp
Ages 14 -17
Bear Camp
August 4th - 8th
Monday - Friday
9am - 3pm
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Ages 14 - 17
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$335
Sliding scale $310 - $360
Bear Camp: Give the gift of hands on experience this summer with the ultimate immersion in the wilderness. This camp is tailored to teens seeking something more than the typical summer camp experience. They will join guides to learn key wilderness skills like knife carving, navigation, fire building, wild edible foraging and more. We'll learn about the naturalist side of bears, examining their habits from foraging, to family dynamics, to searching for tracks and sign. We'll learn about their important roles in the ecosystem through epic games and hands on activities that will test our physical and mental agility, stamina and awareness.
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We'll also explore the deeper meanings of the bear archetype which invites introspection and intuition. Bears spend many days cocooned in the silence of hibernation inviting us to into stillness of what many call inner knowing. We'll practice the core routine of sit spot, play awareness games to keep each other sharp, practice slowing down by fox walking, and tuning in to the natural world through bird language. We'll practicing the art of sharing and listening in council circles to share our minds, hearts, and experiences.
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​By choosing bear camp this summer, your teen will get more deeply ​connected to the natural world through wilderness skills, connect more deeply to their inner knowing through awareness and gain resilience and confidence in their adolescence that will serve them and their community.
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This program explores...
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Survival skills and wilderness skills
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Black Bear track, sign, and behavior
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Awareness skills, sitspot, foxwalking
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Art of Council circle
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Storytelling
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Interactive games and cooperative play
Bear...
Invite me
Into the cave
Where silence surrounds
The answers you gave.
Registration closes July 31th
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More Details
Schedule
Drop off:
Plan to arrive between 8:45 AM and 8:50 AM. All campers must be signed in by an authorized adult.
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Please arrive prepared with the essentials. Guides will be checking Monday morning to make sure campers are ready with backpacks, water bottles, snack, lunch and other essentials. Refer to our guide on What to Wear and How to Prepare.
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No early arrivals will be permitted without prior permission, as our guides will be using that time to prepare themselves for an amazing day of camp.
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Pick up:
Pick up will be at 3:00pm. Check out with guides and sign out. Please alert guides if your camper will be picked up by an alternate adult.
Location
Address: 697 Tinney Road, Mount Holly VT 05758
Please note that cell service can be spotty in the Green Mountains when relying on GPS navigation.
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WOW is located north of Ludlow Vt off of Route 103. Turn onto Sawyer Hill Road and proceed about 2 miles until reaching Tinney Road on the right. You will see the Forest Echo Farm mailbox. Follow this for about 1/2 miles until reaching the WOW parking area on your left.
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If you reach the red buildings, you have gone too far. This part of the land is used by Forest Echo Farm (FEF) and its members and guests. Please turn around and proceed back up the hill towards the parking on the right.
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Note: Please avoid taking Patch Brook Road as this is a seasonal and very narrow road along a stream that is prone to washing out in heavy rain. There are very few spaces to turn around or to let another car pass in the other direction.
