Mountain Adventure Camp Overview
The San Bernardino Mountains offer a wide range of learning opportunities in the areas of natural history and environmental studies and provide an excellent setting for adventure, exploration and fun. The course takes place at one of our Action Learning Campuses in the Big Bear area in the heart of the San Bernardino Mountains, and includes housing, food, and facilities for the program. The campus setting offers a great introduction to the outdoors while providing a level of rustic comfort. In support of programming goals, the setting also offers readily available resources such as a challenge course, extensive destination hiking trails, water areas, horseback riding, and clear skies for an interactive nighttime astronomy program.

Goals for the Course
Peak Performance!™ provides many types of learning activities in which students inevitably find themselves absorbed and deeply invested in outcomes--a perfect situation for learning. A team challenge course allows students to experiment with solutions to real-life situations without real-life consequences. At the foundation of Peak Performance!™ activities are skills crucial for success in life-communication, problem solving, teamwork, appropriate risk taking, and goal setting.

Peak Performance!™ programs emphasize significant, positive, lasting changes in individuals and communities. Sample goals related to these philosophies, to be achieved at the Peak Performance! ™ Mountain Adventure Camp, include:

• Have a fun and positive outdoors experience in order to foster future learning in, and appreciation of, the natural world
  
• Engage students physically, intellectually, and emotionally in discovering information and to ensure the transfer of those lessons learned into their everyday lives
  
• Provide time and opportunity for reflection of their experiences maximizing the retention of the concepts identified
  
• Be able to identify examples of various ecological processes in the surrounding area
  

The Mountain Adventure Camp activities will be a balance of high energy and relaxing reflection. The schedule will include half-day nature hikes, Team Challenge Course, High Adventure (Ropes) Course, canoeing, swimming, horseback riding, mountain biking, and nature activities in a progressive rotation.

Day 1, Sunday
Participants Arrival
Move into Cabins
Dinner

Day 2, Monday
Program Opening

• Safety
• Local Wildlife
• Emergency Procedures
• Challenge by Choice
• Camp Tour

“Icebreaker” Activities
Lunch
Climbing Wall
Dinner
Opening Campfire

Day 3, Tuesday
Breakfast
Nature Hike/Ecology Education
Lunch
Wilderness Skills/Orienteering Course
Dinner
Wildlife Presentation

Day 4, Wednesday
Breakfast
Game Initiatives
Lunch
Rock Climbing
Dinner
Night Hike/Night Sensory Activities

Day 5, Thursday
Breakfast
Mountain Biking
Lunch
Solo Experience
Low Challenge Course
Dinner
Astronomy Program

Day 6, Friday
Breakfast
Horseback Riding
Lunch
High Adventure (Ropes) Course
Dinner
Closing Campfire Activities

Day 7, Saturday
Breakfast
Clean and pack up
Group Closing
Lunch
Farewells and Departure