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Miniwanca Four Trails Adventure Trips
For campers entering grades 9 - 12
If it’s new adventures
you seek, join these single gender and co-ed groups to
explore Michigan from waterways and roadways, discover the wilderness
and beauty
of Canada from a kayak, or journey through New England from the seat of
a bike.
Four Trails adventure trips challenge campers in grades 9-12 to gain
new strengths
while
developing lifelong skills of leadership, cooperation, and respect for
self, others, and the world.
Trailblazer: Entering grades 7-8 Register Now!
- Session A
- Hike: June 21 - July 9, 2009
Session B
Canoe: July 12-July 31, 2009
Explorer: Entering grade 9 Register Now!
- Session A
- Canoe/Bike: June 21 - July 9, 2009
Session B
Hike/Bike: July 12-July 31, 2009
Develop your biking, canoeing, or
hiking skills as you meet the challenges of the Explorer trips. The Explorer
Canoe/Bike will take you on a 5-day trip on the Manistee River
practicing basic paddling and camping skills. Groups will also head
north of Miniwanca to bike and explore the scenic coast of Lake
Michigan for 6 days. The Explorer Hike/Bike will take you
for 5 days through the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
along the North Country Trail,
while the biking segment also heads north of Miniwanca for a 6-day ride.
 Adventurer:
Entering grade 10
Register Now!
- Session A
- 3 week Bike: June 21 - July 9, 2009
Session B
3 week Bike: July 12-July 31, 2009
Adventurers take to the roadways of
Michigan or Wisconsin for a 13-14 day bike trip. Campers
will either journey on a pedal-powered tour of Wisconsin returning to
Miniwanca on a Cross Lake Ferry, or explore the roadways, National
Forests, and shoreline of northern Michigan.
Voyageur: Entering grades 11-12 Register Now!
6 weeks, including in-camp training days: June 21 - July 31, 2009
Dedicate your time as a Voyageur on this 20-day kayaking trip. You'll
develop your kayaking skills at Miniwanca on Stony Lake and Lake
Michigan. Then take to open water on Lake Huron as you wind your
way around the islands of the beautiful Georgian
Bay.
 Odyssey: Entering
grades 11-12 Register Now!
6 weeks, including in-camp training days: June 21 - July 31, 2009
[Optional in-camp week June 15-22 is available! Just let us know if you would
like to enroll]
Again in 2009: Odyssey bikers
will meet at Miniwanca, have a training week, then travel in a van to New
Hampshire, where they will begin the bike trip back to Michigan.
Our Odyssey bike trip will take you on a 23-day tour beginning
in the mountains of New Hampshire and ending on the shores of Lake
Michigan. As an intrepid Odyssey cycler, you will pedal through four
states and the Canadian province of Ontario. You will work as a team to
navigate over 1,100 miles of roadway, cultures, and terrain.
Camp Miniwanca
miniwancacamps@ayf.com
8845 West Garfield Road
Shelby, Michigan 49455
(231) 861-2262
(231) 861-5244 fax
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