Kids Wilderness Overnight Camps
2020 Schedule now available:
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Our goal was to create free opportunities for children and families to participate in adventures they normally would not be able to. In order to provide these camps basically free of charge for those who really needed it, we were relying on community funding, and sponsorship as well as donations from families.
All of our MAERA camps are donation based, PAY WHAT YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN!
Due to MAERA’s other programs and help from our sponsors and donors, our average expense for our overnight horse adventure is $850-1100/child depending on days (limited space). To sponsor a child or help your another child attend please see the donation bar to your right, or donate right on your registration form. (donations can be made now, in payments, or in the future) Donations are optional and confidential, and again ANY amount helps but is not required.
Wilderness Overnight: Mountain Sky
- Survival Essentials (Overnight) |JULY 20-24th 2020
Join us for this incredible adventure and learn the essentials of surviving in the wilderness. From Shelter, Fire, Water and Food, you will have an amazing experience connecting with the wilderness in a new way. This class will teach environment based shelter building, primitive fire making, survival fires, water location/safety, basic survival traps for food and more. This class not only teaches you how to deal when you are lost in the woods, it incorporates ancient primitive skills, and a survival competition the last full day of class!!! Through team building, health enhancement, and leadership this class is a fun amazing way to explore the Montana Back country and learn new incredible skills.
- Bow Making and Archery (Overnight) July 27-31st 2020
Designed even if you have taken Bow making before. Do you love hunting, stalking and being able to get close to animals? Come join us on this amazing back country camp where you will learn how to make a perfectly tillered long bow. During this camp each student will build their own primitive bow to keep and take home. Through this amazing adventure camp, we will also be teaching the art of primitive instinctual archery—with 3D targets and scout games! Through learning the archer’s way of the land you will practice stalking techniques, stealthy movement and you will begin to enter the world of the scout. Participants in this camp will likely never see nature the same way again! Students will learn the process of taking a piece of wood (bow stave) with the bark on, stripping it down, measuring and making a beautifully tillered bow. If you have been at this camp before you will learn arrow making, and bow making with a new wood. $150 bow fee (non-refundable/scholarships available)
Back Country Horse 2020 summer schedule: coming soon
Come join us on this trip of a lifetime. This horse adventure camp starts down the mountain where the students will learn to communicate and connect with the horses. From how to speak to a horse, to building the relationship, each student will learn new skills such as packing or increase existing skills. From there, the class will ride out on an amazing adventure up the mountain to a primitive back country camp. The students will set up camp, learn to cook over a fire, and how to take care of horses in the back country. (average 10 participants)