You can feel the excitement at the AT office build as the countdown to summer accelerates. We can’t wait to meet our students for whom we all come together each summer. Boxes of brand new outdoor gear arrive in our warehouse daily and Instructor Joe Sisti has joined us to help organize and divide all […]
Congratulations to our many high school seniors who will soon be graduating and heading off for college or a gap year. Below is a list of the schools they will be attending. Congratulations for successfully steering through the stressful college “sorting hat.” We hope you have chosen a school that is a good fit for […]
I just read a fascinating book by Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography. It posits that though technology is making the world “flatter, much of Geopolitics and macro human behavior is still defined by Geography. One of his points, one also made more subtly by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel, is that few […]
It’s starting to feel like spring in Western North Carolina. We are still getting in as many ski days as we can, if you are willing to liberally interpret what we do on skis in the NC mountains as skiing. We have now moved into overdrive mode in preparation for what we intend to be […]
We are not among the legions that see technology as an evil to be feared. (We love our I-phones). However, we do believe we should think through the ramifications of how technological changes affect our children before we automatically embrace the next and newest gadgets. To our knowledge no one has yet written a parenting […]
As the parent of four children, I witness an improvement in family dynamics whenever we are able to spend time outside together as a family. Whether it’s just playing games or better still going on a family hike or bike ride, we just seem to get along better outside. Conversations come more easily and we […]
I’m serving on an exploratory committee for our municipality, Flat Rock, NC that is studying the feasibility of converting an unsuccessful 55 acre golf course into a public park. If the park becomes a reality I foresee differences in opinion over what the playground “should” look like. Having already heard public comment in which well-intentioned […]
I’m going to use pumpkin carving as a metaphor for how ridiculously high the bar is being set in our global and digitized world. In my youth, my parents would present me my annual pumpkin a few days before Halloween. I would take my knife, hack out a couple triangles for eyes and a nose, […]
Thanks to photographic evidence pulled from instructor cameras, we have confirmed a few different things about The Adventure Treks 2012 summer: there was lots of singing, we played hard on everything from mountain bikes to whitewater rafts, danced more than we sang, made lots of new friends, and had a lot of fun. Hope you […]
Happy fall! Although your summer trip ended a while ago – and I’m sure you probably feel you have been back in school for forever, here at Adventure Treks, we haven’t even begun to slow down. it still feels like summer! We only had five days between ending our summer season and beginning our fall […]