Another great week of CAP has passed, and it is time to review all the incredible information that we have learned. Tuesday we worked some more on the community action project, and everyone was assigned something to research. This took up most of the class so got down to the real learning on Wednesday. As… Read more »
I saw “Touching the Void”. The movie was about two climbers, Simon and Joe, who decide to climb the west face of Siula Grande, a mountain in Peru. The west face had never been successfully climbed, and never was again. It appeared to me that they came into it without a lot of information, near… Read more »
This week, students conducted research for the Organic Resource Guide they are compiling for their Community Action Project. A rough outline for the guide was created and students broke up sections to research based on what interested them the most. On Wednesday, we had an awesome presentation by Jessie Stoner about various snow shelters, information… Read more »
This week, students conducted research for the Organic Resource Guide they are compiling for their Community Action Project. A rough outline for the guide was created and students broke up sections to research based on what interested them the most. On Wednesday, we had an awesome presentation by Jessie Stoner about various snow shelters, information… Read more »
The Community Adventure Trip Log (TLOG) is a tool that we use to document each trip. Students can use this as a reference and template for coordinating their own trips outside of this class and future CAP classes will use this information as a reference for future trips. This is also a reflective tool for… Read more »
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
This last week has completely changed my eating habits. I was so inspired when the two guys came in from the Boulder Co-Op. I started eating more vegetarian and healthy that night. As tempting as it was to eat those chocolate chip cookies at the bake sale the next day, I didn
“Do you fear the force of the wind and the slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, go wade like the crane; the palm of your hands will thicken, the skin of your cheek will tan, you
