Thetford Outdoor Program

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This is an advanced trip for students who have participated in past TOP summer Leadership programs. The group will travel to La Verendrye park in Quebec Canada and paddle over 150 km through remote wilderness areas. Students must apply to join this trip.

There is a fee for this program to cover food, permits, staffing, and equipment costs.

Price TBD

Dates TBD

Students will spend a week paddling a local section of the Connecticut River. Along the way, they will camp at primitive campsites, develop paddling and leadership skills, and learn about the natural world.

There is a fee for this program to cover food, permits, staffing, and equipment costs.

Price TBD

Dates TBD

This trip is designed specifically for students who are new to TOP summer leadership programs as an introductory outdoor leadership program. The group will base their experience at the TA yurt. Over five days, students will hike on the Appalachian Trail, rock climb in South Royalton, work on a service project and then travel to the Connecticut River for a canoe camping overnight. On this trip, students will develop leadership skills, and learn about the natural world while exploring the forest, cliff and river ecosystems.

There is a fee for this program to cover food, permits, staffing, and equipment costs.

Price TBD

Dates TBA

Students will travel to Keene Valley in the Adirondacks and base camp at a local site. Each day the group will travel to different climbing sites and participate in top rope climbing. Along the way students will develop leadership skills, rock climbing and belaying techniques and learn about the unique geology of the Adirondacks.

There is a fee for this program to cover food, staffing, and equipment costs.

Price TBD

Dates TBD

Students explore the Appalachian Trail on a week long backpacking trip. Along the way the group will be camping at primitive campsites, developing leadership skills, and interacting with the beautiful scenery along this amazing trail.

There is a fee for this program to cover food, permits, staffing, and equipment costs.

Price TBD

Enjoy the great outdoors by way of TA’s school garden and the agricultural resources of the greater Upper Valley. Students will spend time working and learning in the garden at TA, with afternoon garden-inspired crafts, activities, and local field trips.

There is a fee for this program to cover materials and staffing costs.

Price TBD

Learn about garden internships and apprenticeship below!

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This week-long work experience engages students in all aspects of trail maintenance and development. Students will work building and improving trail networks in the Thetford Hill State Forest, and on TA’s vast, 295-acre forested campus. The crew meets Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with four days of work and one-day team activity and hike. Students must be entering 9th grade and complete an application and interview to be accepted into the trail crew.

Students are compensated $100 for the week.

Date TBD

Do you love to be outside? Garden? Lead groups of enthusiastic campers? Then apply to become a garden intern!

Garden interns will work alongside the School Garden Coordinator during the week of summer garden camp. Tasks include helping other campers work in the garden, make crafts, and cook delicious garden-based snacks like pickles and salsa. Interns will help lead games and help with off-campus excursions to nearby farms for fun activities, such as berry picking and exploring, Monday-Friday, 8:30am – 3pm.

Garden interns can expect to:

• Support gardening and outdoor cooking activities
• Help with set-up and clean-up throughout the week
• Keep our campers happy and physically and emotionally safe
• Assist with watering, weeding, planting, harvesting, and processing produce as needed

Desired Skills/Traits:

• Interest and/or experience working with younger teens
• Ideas for games, crafts, and/or cooking
• Physical and mental ability to be an outdoor leader in all types of weather
• Positive, energetic, patient
• A good role model

Interns are compensated $50 per day, 5 days per week, equally $250.

To apply, click the button below or email Kate Reimanis at [email protected].

Do you enjoy working outside, growing food, and learning about plants? The summer garden apprentices will work alongside the Garden Coordinator to plant, water, weed, harvest, and tend the school garden.

This position has a 4-6 hours per week commitment, for 5-6 weeks, June- August. We will create the schedule together, based on your other summer plans.

Qualifications:

• willingness to do physical work outside
• ability to be work even if when hot, sweaty, and dirty
• be on-time and reliable
• use tools safely
• have a positive attitude

Students are compensated $15 per hour.