Twin Eagles Outdoor Adventure Camp

Twin Eagles Summer Camps 2024

Twin Eagles summer camps bring out the best in kids by connecting them deeply to the natural world, forging strong community, and developing genuine self-awareness. Since 2005 we've been offering day and overnight camps for ages 6 - 18 in Sandpoint, Coeur d'Alene, Priest River, Spokane and now in 2024, Bozeman, Montana! Our highly trained instructors draw out kids' passions through nature based activities like:

• Making fire by friction
• Learning edible & medicinal plants
• Exploring natural mysteries
• Traditional archery
• Tracking wild animals
• Building natural shelters
• Discovering the language of the forest
• Training as the native scouts of old did
• Learning earth based crafts, arts, stories, songs
• and much, much more!

At Twin Eagles Summer Camps, we believe that deep nature connection is critical to whole child development. The experiences we offer bring kids back to a simpler, more connected way of life where their senses are honed to once again hear the call of the wild, revel in the feeling of mud squishing between their toes, delight in the beauty of wildflowers, and listen to the music in mountain streams. Kids develop authentic resiliency through real world challenges and traditional earth based skills as they experience the deep peace of the natural world.

As the deep nature connection journey unfolds, our learning community of kids and instructors become tightly bonded, feeling more like family by the camps end. Natural curiosity is fostered into a heartfelt passion for learning, and a love for the earth rises from deep within. Inspirational and meaningful experiences in nature serve as a doorway to powerful life lessons.

Summer Camps 2024 Overview

Note: Availability as of July 25, 2024

Summer Camp Options

• Day Camps for Kids - for ages 6 - 14 - with themes!
• Overnight Camps for Kids & Teens - for ages 10-18

Day Camps for Kids ages 6 - 14

Our week long day camps are an ideal starting point for kids ages 6 to 14 to embark on the deep nature connection journey. Grand adventure, creative expression, huge fun, and unending exploration all join together in these unforgettable experiences that help kids discover comfort and confidence being outdoors and bring their spirits to life.

Passionate engagement opens the door for deeper teachings to take root. Authentic gratitude, self-confidence, patience, good communication, awareness, teamwork, problem-solving, and respect for all things all build as kids deepen their connection to nature, community, and self.

All of our summer day camps run Monday through Friday from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. Camper families are invited to join our closing circle on Friday from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm to celebrate the week's experience together.

Theme based Day Camps at Twin Eagles

This summer we are continuing our inspirational theme based day camps here at Twin Eagles! 2024 Day Camp themes include:

• Nature Adventurers Day Camp for ages 6 - 12
• Wilderness Survival Day Camp for ages 8 - 13
• Forest Scouts Day Camp for ages 8 - 13
• Crafts & Foraging Day Camp for ages 8 - 13
• Emerging Wild Leaders Day Camp for ages 11 - 14 New for 2024!

You are welcome to sign up for as many summer camps as you like. Our camps are all highly engaging and unique, so feel free to pick one or more themes!

We run our summer camps in a way that makes each individual week of camp unique. No two Twin Eagles camps are ever the same! If you return to the same theme a second time, you'll find new and exciting skills, challenges, and adventures that will keep you coming back for more. We take the act of engaging participants in the nature connection journey very seriously, and invest heavily in staff training to honor the art and science of long term mentoring. This is one of our core values that makes our organization unique.

Nature Adventurers Day Camp for ages 6 - 12

Mystery and adventure await all those who heed the call of the wild. Have you ever looked out onto a wild landscape, and imagined all the possible natural adventures, just waiting to be experienced? Indeed, there are great treasures in the natural world for all those with the eyes to see them and the ears to hear them. Treasures like music in mountain streams, or a picture of the universe in a delicate wildflower.

This is what Nature Adventurers do. We band together to heed the call of the wild, and experience activities like:

• Exploring Natural Mysteries
• Super Fun Nature Based Games
• Songs & Storytelling
• Track Wild Animals
• Sensory Awareness Activities
• Crafting with Natural Materials
• Explore forests, creeks, meadows, wetlands, & more
• Discover Edible & Medicinal Wild Plants
• Immersion in Nature

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Wilderness Survival Day Camp for ages 8 - 13

There is an ancient calling deep in the heart to experience the freedom and adventure of living wild and free, close to nature. A desire to provide for one's own needs directly from the Earth, ultimately leading to self-confidence and a powerful sense of place, an almost indescribable, magical sense of oneness with the natural world.

This is the journey of wilderness survival. By the week's end, the experience won't be just learning to survive, but to thrive in the wilderness. During this week of camp, we'll steep in a variety of nature based activities. Possibilities include:

• Making fire by friction
• Building strong natural shelters
• Safe use of knives and carving
• Harvesting wild edible plants
• Tracking wild animals
• Stalking and catching frogs
• How to obtain clean water
• Earth crafts like basketry and cordage making
• Traps, throwing sticks, and slings
• Primitive cooking over a fire
• Lostproofing
• Navigation by map & compass, sun & stars

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Forest Scouts Day Camp for ages 8 - 13

Enter the ancient, secretive world of the forest scout. Forest scouts are the eyes and ears of the tribe, protectors of the village. They are masters of stealth, camouflage, and invisibility, traveling unseen and unheard amongst the shadows.

Like the native scouts of old, forest scouts learn the language of the forest and the subtle track and sign left behind by wildlife in order to foretell danger drawing near.

Immersed in the wild places, they hone their senses to befriend the animals and birds - fox and weasel, wren and thrush. Wait... the birds give away the approach of another clan, prepare for ambush!

In Forest Scouts Day Camp, we'll practice skills such as:

• Natural camouflage, stealth, and invisibility
• Learning the language of the forest
• Immersion in nature & sensory awareness
• Wild animal tracking
• Practicing blindfold activities to enhance the other senses
• Playing awareness games
• Stalking and natural, silent movement
• Learning to move with the ebb and flow of nature
• Developing balance in body, mind, and heart
• Making smokeless fires and other invisible survival skills
• Capture the Flag and other stealth awareness games

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Crafts & Foraging Day Camp for ages 8 - 13

Kids love making stuff! They love making stuff even more when the raw materials come directly from nature, and even more when they harvested the raw materials themselves from the wild. That is exactly what we are going to do in the day camp! Foraging and crafting are timeless, essential practices for humans on the planet. Come join us as we immerse ourselves in the fields, forests and riversides as our earth-based ancestors did long ago gathering wild local materials for making functional and beautiful crafts, tools, foods and medicines.

Possible Crafts & Foraging Day Camp activities include:

• Making Baskets and Containers from Local Plants and Trees
• Felting with Local Materials for Making Mats, Bags or Pouches
• Harvesting and Preparing Wild Edible Foods
• Making Salves and Balms from Local Plants and Trees
• Natural paper making
• Making ink, pens, pencils, crayons and paint brushes from plants and trees
• Weaving Natural Fabric
• Making and Using Natural Rope
• Natural Dyeing Techniques
• Making Plaster Casts from Wildlife Tracks
• Creating Sundials and Compasses for Navigating and Telling Time
• Beautiful Natural Jewelry Making
• Creating & Using a Plant Press
• Making Coal Burned Spoons
• Crafting Game Items to be Played with in Groups

Crafting and foraging activities will include identifying native and non-native species, ethical harvesting practices, processing raw materials, and caretaking best practices. Campers will create functional, practical pieces of art. As they do so, campers will learn about the ecosystem where we'll be foraging & crafting, and experience themselves as part of the interconnected web of natural relationships.

Making natural crafts and foraging wild foods & medicines is super fun! Having a direct relationship with handmade items is deeply engaging and brings more meaning, understanding and connection to life itself.

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Emerging Wild Leaders Day Camp for ages 11 - 14 New for 2024!

Take your nature connection journey to the next level and develop natural leadership skills while having mountains of fun! This day camp is designed for pre-teens and young teens to connect with peers and be guided further along the journey of wilderness skills and nature based mentoring.

Imagine the possibility of trailing otters along a river sandbar with friends, or taking nature games to the next level of fun in ways that only older kids can, or relaxing as freshly harvested wild edible foods roast over the flames of the campfire you started with your handmade fire making kit. This experience is sure to deepen your connection to nature!

Nature awareness and wilderness connection offer the ultimate training ground for emerging wild leaders. Discover the true strength of a team, learn more about your own unique gifts, find fulfillment in service, build strength for facing challenges, and foster your creativity, communication, and self-confidence. Learn about group dynamics and how helping others is secretly helping yourself.

These pre-teen and early teen years can feel complicated and be filled with change. But there are some tried and true earth-based mentoring traditions to help us find our center and feel clear-sighted. What makes you feel happy and good? What sort of world do you want to create and be a part of? We will dive into these mysteries together at Emerging Wild Leaders!

**Note: This day camp is a great step towards becoming an MIT (Mentor-In-Training) at Twin Eagles Wilderness School!

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To Register

Registration is currently open for Twin Eagles Summer Day Camps 2024. Online registration opened February 15, 2024.

You are welcome to sign up for as many summer camps as you would like. Earlier this year we were limiting registrations to a maximum of two camps per child, but we have now removed that limitation.

Complete the online registration process and pay by credit card by clicking the "Sign Up Now" button below.

A 50% deposit per child per camp (25% is non-refundable) is due upon registration.

Scholarships are available for all youth summer camps. If you are interested in a scholarship for 2024 summer camps, please apply for a scholarship immediately, even if that is before registration opens on Feb. 15 so we can email you a scholarship coupon code to use at the time of registration, if you qualify. After Feb. 15th, we encourage everyone to register for summer camps as soon as possible - regardless of whether you have the coupon code, given the popularity of our summer camps. If you register without the coupon code, we can apply the scholarship amount after it is awarded. Scholarships are not guaranteed. Click here for full information about our scholarships.

We're so confident that your child will love our summer camps that we offer you our honest guarantee. If your child doesn't like our camps and chooses to leave before the camp's end, we'll give you a pro-rated refund for all the remaining days they don't attend. Please see our registration process for more details.

Twin Eagles Summer Day Camps 2024

Please Note: Our camps often fill to capacity with waiting lists, sometimes quickly. Your child's space in the camp is not reserved until we have received both a completed registration form and a deposit, and you have heard from us that their registration has been confirmed. Thank you!

Questions? Contact us here.

Overnight Camps for Kids & Teens ages 10 - 18

Once a year, Twin Eagles offers a lucky group of adventurous youth and teens an opportunity to immerse themselves in nature for a tremendous experience of living, learning, working and playing in the natural world away from the rush and din of our modern society. Twin Eagles Overnight Outdoor Adventure Camp is an experience unlike any other.

Working together within mentoring relationships, overnight campers learn wilderness skills such as building and sleeping in primitive shelters, fire by friction, wild edible plants for food and teas, crafting wooden bowls and spoons, pottery using clay from the local river, primitive cooking, making cordage, weaving baskets, and making stone tools, just to name a few. Overnight campers deepen their awareness by honing the senses through animal tracking, bird language and a variety of other possible activities.

Community living offers these youth opportunities to experience the interconnectedness of all life - through sleeping in tipis, song, storytelling, and more. At our overnight outdoor adventure camp, tangible and intangible skills are learned such as communication & teamwork, inner stillness & patience, thankfulness & respect for all things, awareness & common sense, self-confidence, problem solving and more. In the process, participants of our outdoor adventure camp gain an unforgettable experience, make enduring friendships and develop a foundation of experiencing themselves and the earth in a whole new, yet very old way.

Yet all this is just the beginning. Year after year, our campers tell us that their most memorable experiences are those that offer them the greatest challenge and ask the most of them. These more intensive activities are never the same and always epic fun. In the past some have included:

• Nighttime scout games that draw forth great stealth and hone the senses to a keen edge.
• Group wilderness survival camp outs where small groups leave our base camp to practice wilderness survival skills - we build and sleep in our own natural shelters, supplement our meals with wild edible plants, and make fire the old way with a bow and drill kit.
• Intense action archery games using handmade wooden bows and safe, padded foam arrows.
• For the older and more mature teens, wilderness survival solos. This is the one activity we get the most requests for, as it serves as the ultimate test and initiation for an older teen to build their own natural shelter, make fire by friction, harvest wild edible plants, and purify their own water. Beyond this, it is a quest for something much deeper that will impact their whole beings - belief in themselves, genuine competence acknowledged by their community, and an indescribable felt sense of connection and oneness with the wilderness.

Campers and Instructors

Our overnight camps are co-ed. The ratio of boys to girls is typically 50/50, but can change from year to year. Maximum enrollment is 30 kids per week of overnight camp. We have both female and male instructors and the staff to camper ratio is approximately 1 to 6 or better.

Location

Our overnight camps are held at Medicine Circle Eco-Retreat Center located north of Priest River, Idaho. Medicine Circle is a natural, simple, unique, off-the-grid setting that is perfect for our overnight camps. Overnight campers get to experience a simple life close to the earth. Tipis and yurts provide shelter, stars and campfires light the night, and you won't find a single computer or smartphone, but rather a much greater connection with the forests, meadows, and streams. We offer a safe and comfortable camp experience where kids can experience a slower, more natural way of life unique from our fast paced everyday modern experience.

Sleeping Arrangements

Campers sleep in traditional tipis and yurts. These are simple shelters that still allow kids to be close to the earth. Campers and instructors spend most of the week together at base camp, with occasional day trips away from base camp. Once a week, the group typically leaves base camp for a single overnight adventure where campers build and sleep in primitive wilderness shelters. Every night, boys and girls sleep in separate shelters and camp areas for privacy, and there is always a same gender staff who sleeps in their immediate vicinity.

Bathrooms, Showers and Water

We have off-the grid solar-powered showers and no-flush composting toilets that are clean, safe, and good for the earth. There are separate bathrooms for each gender to have privacy. Our solar showers offer hot running water. Fresh drinking water comes from an on site well.

Meals

All meals are provided, and served fresh from our outdoor kitchen. We do our best to serve meals that resemble what many kids might eat at home, from spaghetti and meatballs to soup, salads, burritos and burgers. If your child has different dietary eating habits please let us know in advance so we can do our best to support them to have a great experience with the food we are serving. Our cooks can accommodate most dietary needs including vegan, vegetarian, wheat free, and dairy free diets, as long as you clearly communicate with us well in advance so we can prepare accordingly.

Click here for an overview of all summer camps

To Register

Registration is currently open for Twin Eagles Summer Overnight Camps 2024. Online registration opened February 15, 2024.

You can now sign up directly below. Earlier this year we had an application process that has now been removed.

You are welcome to sign up for as many summer camps as you would like. Earlier this year we were limiting registrations to a maximum of two camps per child/teen, but we have now removed that limitation.

Complete the online registration process and pay by credit card by clicking the "Sign Up Now" button below.

A 50% deposit per child per camp (25% is non-refundable) is due upon registration.

Scholarships are available for all youth summer camps. If you are interested in a scholarship for 2024 summer camps, please apply for a scholarship immediately, even if that is before registration opens on Feb. 15 so we can email you a scholarship coupon code to use at the time of registration, if you qualify. After Feb. 15th, we encourage everyone to register for summer camps as soon as possible - regardless of whether you have the coupon code, given the popularity of our summer camps. If you register without the coupon code, we can apply the scholarship amount after it is awarded. Scholarships are not guaranteed. Click here for full information about our scholarships.

We're so confident that your child will love our summer camps that we offer you our honest guarantee. If your child doesn't like our camps and chooses to leave before the camp's end, we'll give you a pro-rated refund for all the remaining days they don't attend. Please see our registration process for more details.

Twin Eagles Summer Overnight Camps 2024

Please Note: Our camps often fill to capacity with waiting lists, sometimes quickly. Your child's space in the camp is not reserved until we have received both a completed registration form and a deposit, and you have heard from us that their registration has been confirmed. Thank you!

Questions? Contact us here.