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Day Camps now run from 8:30-4:30! Check out our Camp FAQIn our Nature Folklore Immersion Camps we use imagination, play, riddles and adventure to create real world experiences for children in a safe and supportive atmosphere. Our Camps encourage true learning by involving all five of senses while making their daily experience part of an epic story. Learn more on Types of Camps Two Awesome Summer Camp Locations!The Scout Pit 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland OR Map It North Clackamas Aquatic Park 7300 SE Harmony Rd Milwaukie OR Map It Registration is available online or by mail. Special rates are available for consecutive weeks or groups registering together. Camp After Care is available @ the scout pit 4:30 to 6pm for an additional $50 per week. Contact Us for after care. |
Please note Our core philosophy is to let children feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: autonomous, tired, muddy, wet, dirty, ecstatic and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors and social dynamics after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
Week 1 June 16-20, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 Steam Punks: Train & Boat Camp Steam and Train Week: Cool Giant Machines
The Future is steam! Imagine a world entirely run by steam. Steam Robots, steam rockets, steam jet packs and steam widgets. This is Steam Punk. A unique form of science fiction driven by the locomotive of STEAM! Ride trains and boats, marvel at how Steam Locomotives and Steamboats and many other pieces of steam equipment were some of the greatest feats in engineering history!
Ages 6-8 $295 (mobile-base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 5
Ages 8-10 $295 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4
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Week 2 June 23-27, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 4-5, 6-8 & 9-10 Puzzles and Riddles! Coyote Week: Trail of the Trickster
Learn all about the riddles of coyote. We play games that are puzzles, and make our own puzzles from tracking in Nature! We learn all about dogs and other canines. We work with actual dog training experts. With visits from service dogs, we learn how people who train these animals for public service can actually use the silent body language of canines to let dogs know they are part of the pack.
Ages 4-5 $135 (half day) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 5
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 7
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 6/ Aquatics Park 10
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Ages 10-14 Wilderness Survival Skills & Martial Arts Wolverine & Chickadee Week: Masters of Survival
Learn Wilderness Survival Skills and Martial Arts in the Cascade wilderness. Survival becomes about the joy of the Chickadee and the strength of the Wolverine.
Ages 10-14 $415 (overnight June 22-27, 2008) Spaces left 4
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Ages 13-19 A-Team Camp: Mission Alpha Immersion Month
Introducing the ultimate two week live action role playing month long summer camp! With one and a half weeks of fun, intensive training, the final 4 days culminates in a giant live action role playing game where you are sent on a mission to defeat the “evil INSTRUCT-TORS.”
Ages 13-19 $900 (overnight/June 22- July 5, 2008) Spaces left 7
NOTE We strongly limit group size for teen expeditions. It is recommended you enroll soon.
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Week 3 June 30-July 3, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 Bike Ninja Safety & Rock Ninja Raccoon Week: Uncovering the Masked Bandit
@ The Scout Pit: Bike Ninja We discover what an awesome tool a bike is for staying active and healthy. Bikes gets families and campers out in nature and out of doors. We practice a "TrackersBIKE safety code" while learning how to stay aware and take care while riding. Older campers go on "Bike Bandit Raids".
@ The Aquatics Park: Rock Ninja We CLIMB on The Aquatics Park Climbing Wall and train Forest Martial Arts (a blend of animal movement, kicks, jumps, leaps, and self defense) and Wilderness Survival Skills.
Ages 6-8 $195 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 8
Ages 8-10 $195 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 10
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Week 4 July 7-11, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 Water, Weather, Boats & Bugs Frog and Toad Week: The Secrets of the Waters
Its all about the water! We take the umiak on the river and kayaks on the pond and learn safe boating skills. We look in bushes and brushes, puddles and ponds, for frogs and newts, while learning what makes amphibians and bugs special and the differences between them all.
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit FULL/ Aquatics Park 5
Ages 8-10 $235 (mobile base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 7
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Week 5 July 14-18, 2008
Ages 4-5, 6-8 & 9-10 Stealth Adventure Camp Deer Week: Follow the Innocent Hart
Track two REAL deer that swim the waters of the Willamette and make their summer homes in Oaks Bottom. We learn where they hide and we ourselves practice their stealth games.
Ages 4-5 $135 (half day) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 8
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 5/ Aquatics Park 9
Ages 8-10 $275 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 6/ Aquatics Park 8
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Week 6 July 21-25, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 The Lion and the Mouse Cat and Mouse Week: Big Cat's little Ears
Explore the life of all the cats! Both big and small. We also learn tracking from the "mice", because when you start to see mice tracks you see all tracks! Games of stealth teach us about how cougars and other cats hunt through the woods.
Ages 6-8 $235 (mobile-base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 10
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 7/ Aquatics Park 11
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Ages 13-19 Sea Kayak Building TWO WEEKS 7 Seas Weeks
Build your own kayak and learn the basics for safely using it. Skin-on-frame kayaks have been tested and perfected over thousands of years in the toughest, most dangerous water conditions in the world (such as the arctic), by people whose lives depended on their kayaks to hunt and gather their food. discover a new (old) way of exploring your world!
Ages 13-19 $1795 (overnight/July 20- August 1, 2008) Spaces left 5 10% discount available with Alaska 2008
NOTE We strongly limit group size to 8 students for this teen expeditions. It is recommended you enroll soon.
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Week 7 July 28-August 1, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 The Revenge of the Kung Fu Master, Nature, Viking River Pirates! (KNVP) Otter Week
This week is all about fun, play, action and adventure. We "follow the otter" through the river, raising high our PIRATE flag in our 30 person traditional whaling boat! Revel as older campers (ages 8-10) paddle to the mysterious Portland DOWNTOWN and "plunder" participating local businesses and community members. Meanwhile, ninjas try to "take the TrackersHQ", the younger campers must form a TrackersTEAMS to defend it.
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 9
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 10
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Week 8 August 4-8, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 4-5, 6-8 & 9-10 Beary Picking Adventure Bear Week: Tao of Camp
Tons of jam is made to take home to family and friends. Fruit is smashed, honey tasted and fruit roll ups are dried. We create a solar dehydrator and even paint with bearies (berries).
Ages 4-5 $135 (half day) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 5
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 5/ Aquatics Park 7
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 7
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Ages 10-14 Alaska 2008, OVER TWO WEEKS Wild Lands Month: Top of the World
This week we hop a ferry* and travel to Petersburg, Alaska! We have the kayaks, our umiak and our sense of adventure. Here we fish the straits of Petersburg from boats or by shore.
Ages 13-19 $1,995 (land cost) + $615 (travel) (overnight/August 3-August 17, 2008) Spaces left 4
NOTE We strongly limit group size to 8 participants for this expedition. It is recommended you enroll soon.
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Week 9 August 11-15, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 4-5, 6-8 & 9-10 Welcome to Middle Earth Faeries, Hairy Giants & Rangers Week
Oaks Bottom and the Willamette Valley becomes Middle Earth. All the campers become Hobbits, Elves and Rangers and all we learn that TrackersNW instructors are truly live-action-role-playing-nature-nerds. There will be wizards, epic journeys and a fellowship of the one ring.
Ages 4-5 $135 (half day) Spaces left: Scout Pit FULL/
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit FULL/ Aquatics Park 4
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 3/ Aquatics Park 8
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Week 10 August 18-22, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 Bird Secrets Birds Week: Storytellers of the forest
Journey through The Valley to learn more than bird calls. We use binoculars and field guides to find and identify our feathered friends AND use the bird songs and calls to help us find the furry animals.
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 8
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 7/ Aquatics Park 10
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Week 11 August 25-29, 2008, 8:30am-4:30pm
Ages 6-8 & 9-10 Forest Fishing, Fly & Reel Great Blue Heron Week: Master of the Sword
We learn to cast a fly and a reel rod. We trawl in the Umiak boat along the river wishing for fish. We sit by the shore enjoying the last of the summer days and we learn the story of the Salmon and how they are preparing to return from the ocean for the fall.
Ages 6-8 $225 (base camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 8
Ages 8-10 $265 (mobile camp) Spaces left: Scout Pit 4/ Aquatics Park 6
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2008 |
Lil' Possums 4-5 yrs |
Coyote Rangers 6-8 yrs |
Otter Players 8-10 yrs |
Trekkers 10-13 yrs |
Trackers-RITES 13-19 yrs |
Week 1 June 16-20 |
Steam Camp Click link (above) for more info |
Steam Camp Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 2 June 23-27 |
Puzzles & Riddles! Click link (above) for more info |
Puzzles & Riddles! Click link (above) for more info |
Puzzles & Riddles! Click link (above) for more info |
Wilderness Survival Skills & Martial Arts Overnight Click link (above for) more info |
A-Team Camp Mission Alpha Click link (above) for more info |
Week 3 June 30-July 3 |
Bike Ninja Click link (above) for more info |
Bike Ninja Click link (above) for more info |
San Juans: Sea Kayaks, Whale Watching & Island Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 4 July 7-11 |
Water, Weather, Boats & Bugs Click link (above) for more info |
Water, Weather, Boats & Bugs Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 5 July 14-18 |
Stealth Adventure Camp Click link (above) for more info |
Stealth Adventure Camp Click link (above) for more info |
Stealth Adventure Camp Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 6 July 21-25 |
The Lion & the Mouse Click link (above) for more info |
The Lion & the Mouse Click link (above) for more info |
A-Team Camp: Mission Delta Click link (above) for more info |
Sea Kayak Building Limited to 8 participants Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 7 July 28- August 1 |
The Revenge of the Kung-Fu Master, Nature, Viking, River, Pirates! KNVP Click link (above) for more info |
The Revenge of the Kung-Fu Master, Nature, Viking, River, Pirates! KNVP Click link (above) for more info |
Ocean Lore and Mysteries Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 8 August 4-8 |
Beary Picking Adventure Click link (above) for more info |
Beary Picking Adventure Click link (above) for more info |
Beary Picking Adventure Click link (above) for more info |
Alaska 2008 Limited to 8 participants Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 9 August 11-15 |
Welcome to Middle Earth Click link (above) for more info |
Welcome to Middle Earth Click link (above) for more info |
Welcome to Middle Earth Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 10 August 18-22 |
Bird Secrets Click link (above) for more info |
Bird Secrets Click link (above) for more info |
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Week 11 August 25-29 |
Forest Fishing, Fly & Reel Click link (above) for more info |
Forest Fishing, Fly & Reel Click link (above) for more info |
Age Ranges
For 2008 we offer separate camps for students entering these specific age levels.
Lil' Possums Ages 4-5 The name says it all! Lil' Possums camps are a half day to give them the experience in the natural world while having a warm and sheltered base camp to go back to. We often bring in safe pet animals like gentle bunnies and the right reptiles to help the develop a close relationship with nature.
Coyote Rangers Ages 6-8 Coyote Ranges are there for adventure. We use storytelling telling, movement arts and nature exploration to foster the natural questions they have about the world.
Otter Players Ages 8-10 Otter Players explore a little more and a little further! They are often out and about the different greenspaces in the city with occasional BERRY picking trips to local farms.
Trekkers Ages 10-13 Otter Players explore a little more and a little further! They are often out and about the different greenspaces in the city with occasional BERRY picking trips to local farms and MORE!
TrackersRITES Ages 13-18 TrackersRITES says it all in the name! We are very excited to offer cutting edge experiences that ALWAYS fundamentally shift how YOUNG ADULTS feel about their vision for life. This "shift" is done with collaborative skills that bring out the inner nature of the person. Our instructors ALWAYS take care to RESPECT the personal and diverse beliefs of the families and young people we work with.
Base, Mobile and Overnight TrackersNW camps are a mix of Base, Mobile and Overnights. For Base Camps students come and remain on site for the day. For Mobile Camps they adventure abroad and return to base camp later that day. For Overnights students pitch camp in the experienced care of TrackersNW Staff.
Staff The skilled staff of TrackersNW includes experienced regional wilderness educators on the leading edge of place-based education. We are committed to safety and fun in unique outdoor education experiences.
Please Contact Us about our programs or to register for classes.
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