Welcome to the Community Adventure Program. Before we get started, we need to get some feedback about your outdoor experience, your thoughts about the environment, the community, etc. Please answer this survey honestly and to the best of your ability. The good folks who fund this class use this information to assess the performance of… Read more »
Posts By: Ford Church
CAP Final Reflection, by Charlie McGuire
This class has been a great experience for me in many ways. The overnight trips were very fun and educational, especially the second one. I learned what burns well, how to start fires, how to find firewood, how to make quinzes (sp?) and much more. The action project was also a valuable experience, from learning… Read more »
CAP Post-Test Survey, 2nd Quarter 2007
As the quarter comes to a close, I want to get some open and honest feedback from the 2nd Quarter 2007 CAP class to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information… Read more »
Winter Overnight, January 13-14, 2007
Two first-class quinzhees and some fireside cheer!
Winter Overnight, January 13-14, 2007
Hiking in on Saturday and getting the kitchen area going.
Quinzee Breakdown
Quote for Tuesday, January 16, 2007
"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope." -Wallace Stegner
Quote for Friday, January 12, 2007
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses." -Abraham Lincoln
Quote for Thursday, January 11, 2007
"There is more to be learned in one day of discomfort, poverty, and anxiety than in a lifetime of apparent happiness, security, riches, and power." -Ralph Stanton
Quote for Tuesday, January 9, 2007
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." -John Muir, 1875
