Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing Summer Camp Options

Is it time to shop for summer camps? Are you tired of the same old arts, crafts, and campfires? Want to get in touch with the survival side of your personality this summer? Summer camp can be a lot more than s'mores and sand candles - just see what the folks of Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing call summer camp! If you're looking for the perfect summer camp for your adventurous child or teen, then you should take a good look at the Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing programs.

This is one of the most exciting summer camp for kids who love the outdoors and wilderness adventures like kayaking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, or rock climbing, and these are just a few of the activities lined up for the summer campers of 2007! There are a number of programs offered for kids of a variety of ages. Here is a breakdown of the choices you and your child can make for summer camp fun.

Outdoor Discovery programs offered by Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing are geared for kids between the ages of 8 and 12, and they are intended to introduce the campers to the basics of outdoor adventure. It is a blend of camping activities like canoeing, camping, hiking, and cave or rock climbing with traditional summer camp activities like archery and soccer. Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing designed these sessions as one to two weeks long, to prepare campers through the activities that are age appropriate and structured so that kids can safely learn to camp outdoors. The kids are given all the supplies they're going to need at the beginning of their stay, and each day they go on a different type of adventure.

The one week sessions stay overnight in a permanent campsite, while the two week sessions have one week at a permanent site with one week of a traveling site throughout the National Forest. There is no need for previous experience for this program, and there are some of the standard comforts of home offered such as showers and home cooked meals. Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing will take you through great tours of the outdoors to prepare you for any kind of activity you might want to challenge yourself with later on a more advanced level.

Classic Adventures for ages 11 through 17 are even more fun than Outdoor Discovery. Here in groups of twelve, campers first learn the rules of their specific activities, such as kayaking or mountain biking. Once a foundation of understanding and skill is laid, campers go on the adventure of their choices. All of the adventures are within the parameters of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. This is the kind of camping that is completely outdoors, promoting a sense of independence, team work, and leadership. There are many opportunities for adventures: white water rafting, canoeing, sea kayaking, and more! Pick the one right for you or your child.

Specialized Trips are some of the coolest summer camp choices at the Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing. Your camp experience with these trips comes in a variety of intense focus on specific adventure styles. The Classic Adventures have a wider variety of activities; where as the Specialized Trips are designed to hone the skills of the campers. These trips also begin with a series of introductions leading to greater responsibility for the individuals on the trips. You can choose a trip that consists of fourteen days of sea kayaking, fishing, and surfing. If you like hiking, check out the Pack and Paddle trip: spend a couple of weeks hiking through the Virginia section of the Appalachian Trail and ending in a canoe trip down the James River.

Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing designed Rock and Roll for campers who want to spend fourteen days on a mountain bike tour of the Appalachian Mountains that goes from Virginia into West Virginia; in the last few days of the fourteen day trip stop at the New River Gorge for rock climbing the awesome rocks that the New River Gorge is famous for. If you like the river the most, try the fourteen day float trip that starts with a canoe trip and after a few days meanders into a white water rafting lesson that stops off for a rock climbing day on sandstone cliffs at Bozoo Rocks on the summer camp trip they call Go with the Flow.

Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing offers a variety of other Specialized Trips as well in the US, but for the truly adventurous, there are even more intense adventures with the Teen Travel Earth Explorations. These trips are limited to ages 15 through 17, so only older campers can call summer camp a twenty-eight day adventure a trip to Alaska, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, or Panama. Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing designed these trips for adventure enthusiasts who would like a new twist on summer camp outdoor adventure.

Alaska's trip starts with backpacking and land navigation for a week through Denali, and then the moves into sea kayaking across Prince William Sound. The big finale of the trip is ice climbing in Wrangell St. Elysias National Park. Paddle through Vietnam for twenty-three days of cultural enlightenment. Or go to Panama for a sea kayaking expedition through the Panama Canal. In Puerto Rico, surf and snorkel while you learn all about the culture of Puerto Rico.

Which ever choice you make, Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing has designed great trips for the adventure lover.