Welcome to our new staff Staff going over medical kits in prep for the start of the Field School The turkey vultures are soaring overhead, like slow whilrling dervishes circling their way south. The meadows are alive with the sweet yellows of goldenrods and the happy purples of loosestrife. And the [...]
Bread-on-a-stick Making dough for bread on a stick. At our Winter Thrival vacation camp for middle schoolers we hiked off the slope and got a small fire going to cook on of our favorite Crow's Path fireside treats: bread on a stick. It's super simple and super tasty. And while I [...]
Winter Thrival's first run Having a good time around the fire making s'mores and bread on a stick Going into this week I was all nerves. We partnered with our friends at Powe Snowboards to pilot a slope-based program Winter Thrival, which combines our typical approach to Crow's Path program [...]
The ID Club: Inaugural wander The inaugural gathering of the ID Club. Looking at the finer points of our winter trees. On a snowy, windy, and cold January day the ID club met for the first time as we set our noses fiercely against the wind and talked lenticels, stomata, fascicles, [...]
One of my favorite times of year is during the middle of winter when we decide what summer camps we're going to run. We try and create different themes that cater to our staffs' various interests and offer unique opportunities for kids to get outside and play while learning awesome skills. We added [...]
When I started Crow's Path back in 2010, I had a rough sense of what our programs would initially look like: kids running through the woods, playing games, starting fires, building shelters, making bows, carving spoons, and singing songs. But my bigger vision was always to create a strong, vibrant and supportive container [...]
The Art of Paying Attention
How to survive in the woods.
Long-time staff, Lauren Akin is back from sabbatical and in addition to starting a new program with Britt (The Dandelions Program), will be working with our staff and other organizations in the Burlington-area to put us in closer alignment to our mission when it comes to fighting issues of racial and social justice. We're "running" [...]
We try and create a camp schedule with themes for each week to appeal to a wide array of interests in both kiddos and staff. A couple weeks ago we ran a camp centered around Planet Earth, teaching kiddos how to use cameras to capture the beauty of the world around them. I cut together [...]
