As of April 30, 2010;
Hawaii Backpacking
Canoeing in Idaho with Majestic Montana Alpengirls
Montana Photojournalism Camp
Alpengirl offers a 3-day overnight horse pack trip into the Centennial Mountains of SW Montana as a part of the Montana Girls Horse Camp session.
Here’s just a few photos that demonstrate preparing for the pack trip - the girls are packing their gear in a “manty”. These are positioned on the mules that pack all our gear for us into the mountains, the girls ride horse behind the mule train into the wild.
2 Alpengirl campers prepare for manty packing in Montana
Manty is almost finished - it's packed with sleeping bags, food, clothing and more!
A little help from a friend finished the manty off.
Time to catch the horses!
Horse grooming 101, almost ready to ride!
Montana Alpengirl Rafters
The pictures here capture the other side of rafting that you’d don’t normally see on summer adventure camp brochures, ENJOY!
Alpengirl as Ranger Danger
[Play during Yellowstone or Teton Nat’l Park tour days. This is and Alpenolympic Event]
Equipment: Ranger Danger Fact Sheets, Ranger Hat & Glasses, & “Hi, I’m Ranger Danger” name tag.
Set up: Part One: Ranger Danger Fact Sheets are dispensed the night before entering the Park. Each player is asked to study the fact sheet they are given, to become relatively knowledgeable about their given subject, and are informed that they will be asked to relay some of that knowledge to our group in the Park tomorrow. Part Two: Upon entering the Park, Alpenguides will introduce the game, by explaining that “when you see your subject we will stop and you will wear the Ranger Danger costume and be asked to provide a brief presentation upon the subject. You should be prepared to share information on your subject at a moment’s notice. You will be earn points according to overall presentation, creativity, delivery of clear and memorable facts, & delivery of a false fact (or lie) intended to mislead the group.”
Begin: ‘Rangers’ will present their 5-minute Ranger Danger talk to the group. After the ‘Ranger’s’ talk, each player must state one (1) fact learned during the talk. (Each fact will be unique and not a repetition of the same fact or facts.) Each player must recall a correct fact to earn her chance to guess the false fact. After the players recall actual facts, each player verbally announces which fact she guesses is the false fact.
Points: The ‘Ranger’ earns one (1) point for every correctly stated fact recalled by the audience. The ‘Ranger’ also earns one (1) point for every incorrect guess of the false fact. All players can earn one (1) point toward their own ‘Ranger Danger’ score for correctly guessing the false fact. Overall presentation and creativity points are given to each ‘Ranger’ at Alpenguides discretion.
Alpengirl Ranger Danger Bat Demo
Alpenolympic Essay from an Alpengirl during Summer Adventure Camp 2009
Being Away From Home at Summer Adventure Camp ~
Being away from home is hard for everybody. I go away for two weeks every summer and have since I was 8, but, it has never been this hard before. Maybe it was not knowing anybody, maybe it was being in another state, maybe it was not being in contact with my parents, it could be a number of things or a mix of all of them.
The toughest days were the first few. I didn’t know anybody and all I wanted was to go home where I knew everybody. After about 2-3 days I made so many new friends that I was getting closer and closer to that I stopped thinking about home and my family as much. Whenever I got sad and started to cry, my new friends would help me take my mind off of it.
It wasn’t just my friends who helped me when I got homesick. Faum and Hannah were there to give me a hug. Hannah and Faum didn’t just give me hugs, they also gave me advice on not being homesick that really helped.
No matter who you are you always think about home or it’s in the back of your mind somewhere. You miss the big things like your parents and/or your siblings. Or you miss the small things like your bathroom or candy or you don’t miss anything at all, you just think about home. No matter what, at Alpengirl I had friends and great counselors to keep my mind off family as much as possible.
Alpengirl Camp Director - Alissa Farley
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Summer Camp Discount: Show up in person & ask about our Montana summer camp fair special (an incentive or discount) on summer camp this summer!
“All of Alpengirl’s delicious meals, chosen from the special Alpengirl cookbook, are not only tasty but healthy for your body too. The low-sugar foods taste just as great if not greater than the high-sugar, high-calorie, high-carb stuff. Pancakes made with whole grain, oats and fruit are sinfully good, while remaining healthy and giving you enough energy to get through all of the camp activities before lunch. So, to anyone who believes health food will never be as good as unhealthy food, you obviously need to spend two-weeks at an Alpengirl Camp. The food made for campers, or rather, mostly by campers, is also very unique. Foods and flavors I would have never thought to put together touch bored taste buds and create powerful flavor explosions! Such as Breakfast Quesadillas with melty cheese and fruit salsa or a Chinese Chicken Salad. Many times girls event try foods they haven’t ever heard of, opening them up to new palettes. Even in the rare occasion that someone doesn’t like a meal, there are always other options. All in all, the food at Alpengirl is above and beyond any other camps food, and most other food for that matter. If not go to Alpengirl for any other reason, at least go to try the delicious camp food.” ~ Athena, Alpengirl 2009
Banana Nut French Toast
We have 5 choices of camp sessions that remain available today at Alpengirl
1. Montana Mini Adventure ~ June 19-26 (8-days), age 12-15, $1125 SW Montana(start/end Bozeman, MT) Backpacking, yoga, horseback riding, canoeing, wild west rodeo.
2. Montana Photojournalism Adventure “A” ~ June 27 - July 11 (15-days), age 12-15, $2170 SW Montana (start/end Bozeman, MT) Digital photography, creative journal writing, hiking, backpacking, rafting, yoga, horseback riding, canoeing, hot spring soaking, Yellowstone National Park.
3. Majestic Montana Adventure ~ July 11-24 (14-days), age 12-15, $2170 SW Montana (start/end Bozeman, MT) Backpacking, yoga, rock climbing, hot spring soaking, whitewater rafting, canoeing, horseback riding, caverns, Yellowstone National Park.
4. Big Island Hawaii Adventure ~ July 12-25 (14-days), age 13-16, $2445 Big Island (start/end Kona, HI) Sunset horseback riding, backpacking, surfing, snorkeling, yoga, boogie boarding, farmers market, Waipio cultural day, hiking Volcanoes National Park.
5. Washington Olympics Adventure ~ July 26 – August 8 (14-days), age 12-15, $2170 Olympic National Park – Washington (start/end Seattle, WA) Rainforest and beach backpacking, yoga, sea kayaking, hot springs, Victoria BC tour.
Call Alpengirl in Montana at 406-284-4110 to check on availability and to determine if Alpengirl and your session of choice are a good fit.
alissa@alpengirl.com
Camilla and 3 of her international Alpengirl friends in Alaska getting ready for white water rafting!
One week before I came to camp I was really nervous because of being from another country. It scared me that the other girls wouldn’t accept me because I was not from U.S.A.
When I arrived to Anchorage and I met the other 5 Alpengirls I realized that this camp is now internationally known because there were girls from all over the world (India, France, Colombia, USA) and we all had something in common. We were all going to be Alaska Alpengirls
The days passed and we got to know each other; we couldn’t stop talking about how our lives were back home. That’s when I realized that we were all different and equal at the same time.
With Alpengirl I learned to respect other people; I realized that the world is huge and that there is amazing people all over the world. At the beginning we were only 6 strangers and 2 Alpenguides; but, two-weeks later we had become a family; an international family of Alpengirl.
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