| • Wilderness Experience Camp @ Kargus
Lake Retreat |
Aug 17-23, 2025 |
| • Outdoor Pursuits Program |
Continuous Intake |
| • Project Lost Camp @ Marble Lake Lodge
|
TBD |
| • Wilderness Voyageur Canoe |
(Available on request) |
| • Backcountry Backpacking Trip |
(Available on request) |
| • Primitive Living Survival Adventure |
(Available on request) |
| • 9-day Wilderness Program |
(Available on request) |
| • Winter Camping and Dogsledding
Expedition |
(Available on request) |
Outdoor Pursuits Program
1 - 2 years part-time (older teens to young adults) = Continuous Intake
(semesters winter, spring, summer, and fall).
Project LOST YOUTH SURVIVAL Inc. 9-day Kargus Wilderness
*Open to 11 - 17 year olds, co-ed; parents, agencies, schools can register
teens for this program. Please contact WSC for an application form(s).
Goals & Objectives
Send your teenage son/daughter to a unique Youth at
Risk, Drug Prevention, Intervention camp program……through
very challenging nature-based activities, they will become re-attached
to nature, build confidence and self-esteem, accumulate hands-on skills,
learn how to lead, experience team-building….and learn how to
survive in the wilds, so they may have a better chance to survive in
this wild civilized world!
Participants will live for 3 days in a pioneer, off the grid rustic wilderness cabin, participating in all daily chores. During these first days, they will train in wilderness and survival skills, and prepare for a 3-day backcountry backpacking trip, a 2-day primitive survival experience, and a final vision-quest simulation.
Itinerary
Orientation Meeting/Package:
Participants will attend a pre-camp orientation session, where the goals & objectives and itinerary of the program will be discussed in detail. At the orientation, campers will receive a program handout package containing all trip logistics eg. Gear/clothing/footwear, where to meet, transportation etc., medical waiver forms, and the survival skills manual. In addition, the important activity of keeping a daily journal will be highlighted.
Day #1 – 2: PHASE-1 PIONEER OFF-THE GRID LIFESTYLE
Arrive at the Kargus Lake Wilderness Retreat, settle in to cabin(s), opening circle and orientation re– 2 days learning survival skills and living the pioneer off-the grid lifestyle. During this phase, campers will practice wilderness survival skills, map & compass/GPS navigation, nature lore, pioneer cabin skills, and participate in team challenge events. Each day, campers will go hiking and swimming at First Kargus Lake.
Day #3—4: PHASE-2 BACKPACKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY
Participants will attend a backpacking-101 workshop, preparing them for the 2-day backpacking trip to Kargus Mountain and beyond into the backcountry! Campers will carry their own expedition gear, set up a camp with tents and tarps each night, and learn how to cook their meals over a campstove and open fire. The group will navigate using topographical maps, compass, and global positioning system. In addition, they will learn how to navigate using the sun-dial and watch methods utilized by peoples of the past.
Each evening, a campfire circle will give participants an opportunity to explore their life goals and aspirations, and to reveal where they fit into this wild world we all live in!
Day #5—7: PHASE-3 SURVIVAL SIMULATION
Campers will spend the next 3 days surviving in a remote location near Second Kargus Lake, without tents, sleeping bags, and with limited food rations (flour, soup, granola). Working in teams, they will construct primitive a-frame and lean-to shelters, build fire with flint and steel and by firebow methods (friction), gather edible wild foods, and construct primitive tools (birchbark baskets, spruce root ropes, pine sap glue sticks, figure-4 traps). The evening campfire will allow campers the opportunity to reflect on the struggles of the peoples of the past eg. Pioneers, Voyageurs, Native Peoples, Early Explorers, versus our present day high-tech lifestyle!
Day 8—9: PHASE-4 SURVIVAL VISION-QUEST
Campers will hike to their solo vision-quest survival site, where they will survive the last nights in solitude…….trying to make sense of the world we live in, and what it takes to compete and succeed in it!!!!!
Post-program certificates, follow up, other programs discussed at follow up meeting, slideshow of camp.
