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Backpacking Trips | Grades 7-12

Widji also offers many backpacking trips throughout the country and into Canada. Trips advance in difficulty every summer, progressing from the Superior hiking trail, Isle Royale, the Bighorn Mountains, the Rocky Mountains. With advanced trips traveling to the Wind River Range, the Saw Tooth Wilderness Area, the Beartooth Wilderness, and the Willmore Wilderness in Alberta, Canada.

The climax trip of the Backpacking program travels to the mountain ranges of Alaska and Canada. Recent groups have hiked in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, and the Oglivie Mountains in the Yukon Territory of Canada.

 

Isle Royale | Graders 7-8

Superior Hiking Trail | Grades 7-8

Canoeing & Backpacking Combo | Grades 8-10

Bighorn Mountain Trips | Grades 8-10

Rocky Mountain Trips | Grades 9-12

Advanced Backpacking Trips | Grades 10-12

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I learned how just to be myself and how to (hopefully) bring my trail self back to the real world. Because my trail self is defintely my best self.
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