Wilderness Survival Skills Weekend for Adults
Location: Amethyst Retreat Center
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Build, or expand, your primitive survival skills during this 2-day weekend intensive. Participants will learn skills of living in and with nature through hands-on experience, at our 144-acre haven, from highly qualified instructors who live this lifestyle.
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To Register:
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| Registration Form-Adult Camp |
| FAQs-Adult Camp |
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Covid Protocol at the bottom of the page
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Jr Tracker & Wilderness Exploration Summer Camps
Location: Amethyst Retreat Ctr 44 Buffalo Creek Rd
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WEEK 1: Students immerse themselves in nature! Over the course of this week, participants will learn ways to connect to their landscape through learning the survival skills of our ancestors. Through games, primitive crafting projects, hands-on exercises and demonstrations, they will find the importance of independence, ingenuity, awareness, teamwork, and communication. Skills covered will include friction fire, primitive shelter building, natural fiber and cordage making, tracking, basket making, camouflage, primitive cooking, bird language, wild edibles, and more. This program is designed not only to give students the tools to survive, but also to realize the beauty of living close to nature. For students ages 10-17. SOLD OUT
WEEK 2: Advanced skills for kids! This week is designed to expand on our beginning course with advanced shelters; more long-term projects; bone and stone tool work; pottery; advanced tracking; advanced cooking techniques; heightened awareness exercises; harvesting edible, medicinal, and utilitarian plants; and much more. This program will take participants to the next level of their crafting and survival skills, as well as their understanding of nature and themselves. A big part this week will be to get the students to work together to overcome challenges by honing their ingenuity, communication, and leadership skills. For students ages 10-17. SOLD OUT
Before and after child care is available for an additional fee for both weeks. |
To Register:
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| Jr Tracker registration form |
| Medical Form |
| Scholarship Application |
| FAQs-Childrens Camp |
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SOLD OUT Jr. Trackers Week 1 (July 6th-10th)
SOLD OUT Jr. Trackers Week 2 (July 13th-17th)
COVID PROTOCOL
Amethyst Foundation is committed to following the Covid-19 guidelines provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health[1] and the CDC’s suggestions for Youth and Summer Camps[2], for the safety of our staff, students, and families. We are constantly monitoring resources provided by these entities for any changes in protocol. Below is a summary of Amethyst’s protocol during the Jr. Tracker camps.
• Check-in and check-out
There will be a table near the front door to the farmhouse, for check-in and check-out. In an attempt to stagger registration, while another camper is being checked in/out with Dr. Don Kovacs, please remain in your vehicle. Campers are to remain outdoors, with the exception of staggered lunches in the air-conditioned common room, given the anticipated high temperatures.
Staff and campers will be expected to pass a temperature check each morning during check in. If that temperature is 99.7 degrees or higher, the staff/camper will be expected to return home immediately and undergo evaluation for possible Covid-19 before returning to camp.
Karen will be accepting each child’s lunchbox to refrigerate, as necessary. She will later heat lunches, if required, and bring lunch to each child. Each camper’s belongings are to be kept separated from others’ and in individually labeled containers.
• General Operations
References:
[1] https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx
[2] https://www.acacamps.org/
[3] https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200701-SOH-Universal-Face-Coverings-Order.pdf
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/reopen-guidance.html
Amethyst Foundation is committed to following the Covid-19 guidelines provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health[1] and the CDC’s suggestions for Youth and Summer Camps[2], for the safety of our staff, students, and families. We are constantly monitoring resources provided by these entities for any changes in protocol. Below is a summary of Amethyst’s protocol during the Jr. Tracker camps.
• Check-in and check-out
There will be a table near the front door to the farmhouse, for check-in and check-out. In an attempt to stagger registration, while another camper is being checked in/out with Dr. Don Kovacs, please remain in your vehicle. Campers are to remain outdoors, with the exception of staggered lunches in the air-conditioned common room, given the anticipated high temperatures.
Staff and campers will be expected to pass a temperature check each morning during check in. If that temperature is 99.7 degrees or higher, the staff/camper will be expected to return home immediately and undergo evaluation for possible Covid-19 before returning to camp.
Karen will be accepting each child’s lunchbox to refrigerate, as necessary. She will later heat lunches, if required, and bring lunch to each child. Each camper’s belongings are to be kept separated from others’ and in individually labeled containers.
• General Operations
- Students and staff are to remain at least 6 feet apart, and are not to share objects. We will be outside the duration of the camp, which will help to mitigate the spread of any potential virus.
- Hand cleanliness - Campers and staff are encouraged to sanitize hands frequently. An outdoor hand-sanitizing station will be made available, with hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol content.
- Use of Masks - Governor Wolf has announced 7/1/2020 that while outdoors, if a distance of 6’ cannot be consistently maintained, masks are required to be worn.[3]
- Snacks offered will be in pre-packaged boxes or bags.
- High-touch areas will be disinfected multiple times a day during camp.[4]
- Expectations for parents – It is expected parents understand the symptoms of Covid-19. We are asking that if you are concerned your child might have these symptoms that you keep them home and arrange alternative care while consulting with their primary care physician.
- Staff and campers are to stay home if they have tested positive for, or are showing, COVID-19 symptoms. Sick staff members or campers should not return to camp until they have met CDC’s criteria to discontinue home isolation.
References:
[1] https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx
[2] https://www.acacamps.org/
[3] https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200701-SOH-Universal-Face-Coverings-Order.pdf
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/reopen-guidance.html