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Wolf Camp was voted 1 of 2 Best Camps in the Northwest Family News Reader's Poll of 2001, the only year they ran a poll, and we were also chosen as one of the five "best camps ever" by YM Magazine in its March 2003 issue.


Win an autographed copy of the new amazingly-metaphoric-to-wolf-camp children's book Wolf Camp by Katie McKy through our scholarship fundraising raffle.

Wolf Camp Theme Choices Enroll now in your choice of themes taking place this week: Future Survivors Fun Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, campers work as a team to start fire with all natural materials; then in tandem to light fire by friction; and older campers learn safe hatchet use while scoring a log. Future Survivors Fun celebrates its 12th year this summer. Re-create a traditional way of life, honoring the gifts of wood, stone, fire and water. We'll follow the Critical Order of Survival, practicing emergency response scenarios, building warm shelter, purifying drinking water, making safe fire, and using the most important plants for survival. Campers will also witness bow drill fire by friction and then work with a team to practice it themselves. They will learn aidless navigation for lostproofing, and craft tools of stone, including a course knife. They will make "rabbit sticks" and other honorable hunting implements, learning that all life - plant, animal and mineral - is sacred to be respected. After this camp, the children will feel like they achieved many successes in an atmosphere of challenge, wonder, and captivating fun. For more details on the skills introduced during this introduction to wilderness survival, read the description of our Survivors Side of the Mountain and Stone Age Artisan overnight camps. Wildlife Tracking & Birding Games Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, check out the coon and skunk saw in the park; then Chris shows campers how a beaver chewed the stick they found; and campers demo camouflage movement during a game. Wildlife Tracking & Birding Games celebrates its 16th year this summer. Tracking means knowing absolutely everything about the maker of tracks, discovering what it’s really like to be a bird or other animal, using Sensory Awareness to know everything that's going on around you, and being able to find a person who was lost. During the week, campers will learn the Language of the Birds, work together to plaster casts of favorite animals, craft tracking sticks, safely move through the woods, and investigate trails, lays, larders, and other signs of life all around. This camp is full of exciting, interactive, challenging and cooperative games, as campers learn to work as a team to develop skills of leadership, cooperation, patience, orienteering, dexterity, fun. Their ultimate goal will be to complete coyote’s challenge: decoding mysteries, following maps to hidden treasures, and navigating obstacle courses. For more details on skills introduced during this introduction to nature awareness, tracking and birding, read about our Secrets of the Ancient Scout and Wolves & Ravens - Predators & Prey overnight camps. Wild Chefs & Herbology Artwork by Wolf Journey alumn Joanna Colbert. In the pictures below, campers eat seaweed they gathered from shallow water; two boys collect cattails to weave sitting mats; then a group shows off cedar bark basketry older campers made. Wild Chefs & Herbology celebrates 10th year this summer. Explore the fields, forests, prairies, streams, ponds, bogs, seashores, and backyards of our beautiful region to discover wild foods and medicines growing everywhere. Campers will work with more than even the Top 10 Most Important Plants of their area, and be able to identify their look-alikes. We wish parents could watch the unfolding of this camp week, because the journey for these young chefs and healers is amazing. From discovering wild foods and medicine, to investigating their properties, to fully utilizing their gifts, and finally being able to tell their true stories, campers develop more real skill than you might imagine. The kids will also learn to start and use a fire safely, cook with ancient and modern methods, spin natural rope, purify drinking water, and come home with oils and creams they blended with herbs to heal common ailments, among other accomplishments. For more details on the skills introduced during this introduction to wild edible and medicinal plants, read the description of our Wild Gardening & Herbology and Mystery of the Mima Mounds overnight camps.

Camp Health & Safety

Our highly seasoned, dynamic instructors place the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health of our students as top priority, and we enjoy a stellar stafety record since founder and lead instructor Chris Chisholm (BA, EMT, Youth Specialist CDC II) started day camps in 1997. We have always maintained an intimate 6-1 or smaller ratio of campers-instructors, with lead instructors driving vans who average age 35, accompanied by assistant instructors averaging age 21. Enrollment runs between 15-50 campers with 4-12 instructors and assistants. All staff receives training in risk management, wilderness first aid, and the pedagogy of earth skills education. We supervise swimming every day whenever possible and safe, and strictly supervise lunch breaks (do send along a sack lunch along with other items on the packing list). Finally, be sure to read our Agreements for Participation in Summer Day Camps to your camper in a way s/he can understand. Thanks!

Tuition & Registration

The cost per day camp week (Mon-Fri) in 2012 is $290 if you register by June 5, and $300 thereafter if space remains available, plus optional vanpooling fee of $10-$35 depending on your location - see below. $75 per participant deposit (plus $10 deposit for optional vanpool) is required to hold your spot. Cumulative discounts of $20 are given per additional family member, and $20 off for referring any new family who registers someone for camp.

Our refund policy is written just above where you sign your registration form. It reads that if we cannot accept your registration due to closed enrollment or other reason during the application process, you will receive a full refund on deposits. Otherwise, deposits are not refundable. If you need to cancel after making further payment, you may receive a credit for a future program, minus a 25% administration fee of your total payments, in case of emergency. Of course, you will receive a full refund if the program you sign up for is canceled and not rescheduled at a time you can attend. Participants may be asked to leave at any time for inappropriate behavior or unresolvable match to camp, and no refund (nor credit necessarily) will be given for the portion of the program which is missed.

ENROLLMENT OPTIONS for AUGUST 27-31, 2012: Either: 1) Download & Send Our Registration Form via email or usps with a check or credit card deposit. Or: 2) Call Us and we'll take your application over the phone with a credit card deposit. Or: 3) Email Us with your address and we'll send you an application form with directions. Or: 4) Use the PayPal link below to make a deposit for our Edgewater Park day camp serving Whatcom, Skagit, plus North & East Snohomish Counties, and we'll get you all set up!

Click here to Choose Your Camp Theme Deposit for Future Survivors Fun $75.00 Deposit for Wild Chefs & Herbology $75.00 Deposit for Tracking & Birding Games $75.00 Deposit to Reserve Space in Vanpool $10.00 Scholarship Fund Donation for Organic Bamboo Wolf Camp T-Shirt $30.00 Scholarship Fund Donation for White Wolf Camp T-Shirt $15.00 Scholarship Fund Donation for Wolf Camp Bandana $15.00

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Pickup/Dropoff & Van Transportation for the Week of August 27-31, 2012 at Edgewater Park in Mt. Vernon and Lake Padden Park in Bellingham with transportation from • Marysville-Arlington-Stanwood • Anacortes-Oak Harbor • Sumas-Everson-Deming • Blaine-Ferndale-Bellingham

Instruction runs Mon-Fri 9:30-3:30. If you would like to drop off directly at Edgewater Park at 205 S. Ball St. in Mt. Vernon, or Lake Padden Park at 4882 Samish Way in Bellingham, arrive at 9:00 and pick up at 4:00. Depending on the day, we will either stay at your drop-off point and play outdoor games between 9:00-9:30 and 3:30-4:00, or we will transport campers to the opposite park where the location is most prime for the day's activities. Vans are driven by our lead instructors who average 35 years old, and are accompanied by assistant instructors averaging 21 years old. All times Mon-Fri except Friday afternoon when families are invited to attend camper presentations from 3:30-5:00 at Edgewater Park in Mt. Vernon.

Marysville departing at 8:15 and returning at 4:45 (I-5 Exit 199 at the Best Western Tulip Inn, 3228 Marine Drive NE 98271) - ($30/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $20 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register
Arlington/Smokey Point departing at 8:30 and returning at 4:30 (I-5 Exit at the Buzz Inn, 17216 Smokey Point Dr. 98223) - ($25/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $15 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register
Stanwood/Camano Island departing at 8:45 and returning at 4:15 (I-5 Exit 212 at the Two-Twelve Market, 26625 Old 99 North, 98292) - ($20/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $10 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register

Residents of Snohomish Counties can click here and check out our free SEATTLE-EVERETT-SNOHOMISH MEETUP WEBSITE to keep up on local Wolf Camp events including monthly classes in Marysville during the school year!

Fidalgo Corner serving Anacortes & Oak Harbor departing at 8:45 and returning at 4:15 (Fidalgo Country Inn, 7645 SR 20, Anacortes, WA 98221) - ($25/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $15 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register

Residents of Lower Mainland B.C., Whatcom, Skagit, Island & North Snohomish Couties can click here and check out our free MT. VERNON - BELLINGHAM - SUMAS MEETUP WEBSITE to keep up on their local Wolf Camp events including monthly classes in Bellingham during the school year!

Sumas departing at 8:15 and returning at 4:45 (USA Gasolline, 208 Cherry Street, Sumas, WA 98295) - ($35/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $25 additional charge for transport home Friday.) - Register
Everson departing at 8:30 and returning at 4:30 (Starvin Sam's, 102 West Columbia Street) - ($30/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $20 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register
Deming departing at 8:45 and returning at 4:15 (Dodson's IGA Market, 3705 Mount Baker Highway) - ($25/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $15 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register

Residents of Lower Mainland B.C., Whatcom, Skagit, Island & North Snohomish Couties can click here and check out our free MT. VERNON - BELLINGHAM - SUMAS MEETUP WEBSITE to keep up on their local Wolf Camp events including monthly classes in Bellingham during the school year!

Blaine departing at 8:15 and returning at 4:45 (Peace Arch State Park parking lot at the corner of A Street and 1st Street in Blaine WA) - ($35/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $20 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register
Ferndale departing at 8:30 and returning at 4:30 (I-5 Exit 262 at Denny's, 5720 Barrett off Axton Rd., Ferndale, WA 98248) - ($25/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $15 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register
Bellingham/Sunset departing at 8:45 and returning at 4:15 (Kids' World 2000 at 2000 East Sunset Drive
Bellingham, WA 98226) - ($15/wk does not include Friday afternoon. $10 additional charge for transport home Friday after dinnertime.) - Register

Click Here for the Packing List for Summer Day Camps

If you would like to help your camper learn more about the subjects we teach, please ask your lead instructor for our top recommended resource focusing on what interests you. See Books and AV for general suggestions.

Click Here for Agreements for Participation in Summer Day Camps

Lost & Found Policy: If you leave it at camp, it will be picked up by charity unless you pick it up at the Wolf College campus within 60 days or the very next Wolf Journey class (sept) in your area since we won’t have staff to package and send home forgotten items. To help avoid loosing things, please put your name on every item you bring, bring only what you need, and as explained above, leave all electronic devises and other distractions at home.

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