The Program
Pemi West is a 3 1/2 week wilderness skills and leadership program for 15 - 18 year old men and women. We also offer a ten-day backpacking trip for adults. (See Pemi West for Adults). This program grew from our desire to provide a more extensive and challenging wilderness experience for older campers. Pemi West's first season was in 1997 in the central Colorado Rockies. Olympic National Park in Washington has been our home for the past several summers.
We offer you the opportunity:
- to have
fun with new friends;
- to acquire
the skills and knowledge to safely plan, lead and enjoy a backpacking
trip of moderate length through rugged mountainous
terrain;
- to develop
a heightened appreciation of the natural world and a sense of stewardship
of the environment;
- to enhance your awareness of your personal capabilities and potential.
Program Features:
- 3 weeks
of expeditioning among the ridges, snowfields, peaks, forests, and meadows
of the Olympic National Park. Conditions permitting, you will have the
opportunity to attempt to summit Mt. Olympus.
- Instruction
in technical mountaineering skills, such as crevasse rescue, ascending
fixed lines, belaying, roped glacier travel, rappelling, and possibly
ice climbing.
- Instruction
in wilderness First Aid
- Small
groups (never more than 8 participants)
- A 1 day solo
| Pemi West complies with the National Park nondiscrimination requirements, and carries out its activities in the Olympic National Park under a Special Use Permit granted Camp Pemigewassett by the National Park Service. |
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