Kroka Expeditions is committed to awakening in young people a connection to nature and the spirit within, and a capacity for conscious living and compassionate service. We strive to achieve this through wilderness adventure, community living, farming, and the practice of traditional and indigenous skills.
Our many wilderness adventure summer camp programs offer a variety of skills and experiences for students age 6 to 18 years who come and stay with us for one or two-weeks camps during June, July, or August. While each program is centered around a special activity, such as rock-climbing, canoeing, caving, biking, timber framing, or wild crafts, all programs share a core curriculum that includes living with simplified personal needs and belongings, putting the needs of the group before those of the individual, and eating locally grown food that is prepared from basic ingredients each day and cooked over an open fire.
Our spring and fall semester programs combine the academic rigor of a traditional school with the physical, social, and spiritual growth of life on a wilderness expedition. The New Hampshire-Vermont semester takes students on a 600-mile long trip by ski and canoe, from our base camp in southern New Hampshire, across the state of Vermont to the Canadian border and back again. During this semester the romance of a ski track and the song of a paddle, combined with the stroke of your pen, provides an incredibly unique educational experience that often changes the cours e of students lives. The New Hampshire-Ecuador semester is an immersion into the cultural, economic and social lives of two contrasting parts of the world: New England in the Northern Hemisphere and the Republic of Ecuador in the Southern Hemisphere. Through social interaction with the different cultures, paddling Amazonian rivers, trekking in the jungle and exploring snow capped volcanoes students develop a sense of place and purpose as an individual within the world.