“One of the goals of the program as a whole is really to reach students who otherwise wouldn't have had an opportunity like this,” Marcus said. Thanks to financial support from NATOPAKAMA Bittersweet Foundation, SOKO Outfitters and the Kate Svitek Memorial Foundation, the program will cover all transportation, equipment and meals for the students.
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The otherworldly adventure is completely free for the eight accepted applicants. An outfitter for Step Outdoors, a Colorado-based company providing outdoor experiences and educational opportunities, also will contribute their expertise as a skilled backpacker and navigator. Rector and Linn County Sustainability Director Tamara Marcus will accompany accepted applicants on the trek and support them. Accepted students will be trained and provided gear all they need to bring to the table is a willingness to learn, grow and collaborate. Not an expert hiker? Don’t worry: The ideal applicant is someone who is passionate about exploring wild spaces but who may not have the opportunity or means to do so. “For our students to experience an actual federally designated wilderness, we have to take them to one and immerse them in it.” “There's absolutely zero wilderness in Iowa,” said Kent Rector, manager of Linn County’s Wickiup Hill Learning Center. But eight high school students will be able to experience the wild - and embrace it - through a fully funded two-week backpacking trek offered by Linn County Conservation. The mountainous landscape feels worlds away from Iowa’s hills that fan like gentle waves across most of the state. Vista points dot the paths, glorious views stretching to the horizon.
Trails weave through mazes of pine, aspen, spruce and fir trees.
The South San Juan Wilderness Area claims more than 150,000 acres of southwestern Colorado, harboring rocky peaks and lush valleys carved long ago by glaciers and volcanoes. wilderness area in southwestern Colorado. A team of local high school students and trip leaders hikes up a rocky incline during Linn County Conservation's 2022 trek through the South San Juan Wilderness, a U.S.
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