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GENERAL INFORMATION

STUDENTS:
Twelve to fifteen students with diverse backgrounds will form each group.
New Hampshire-Vermont Semester: grades 10-12, postgraduate/gap year
New Hampshire-Ecuador Semester: grades 11-12, postgraduate/gap year
Rolling admissions until the groups reach a maximum of 15 students each.

IS THIS PROGRAM RIGHT FOR ME?
Semester students should:

• Be self motivated
• Love the wilderness and want to learn how to live respectfully on the land
• Be ready to adopt a simple lifestyle with simplified personal needs
• Desire challenges and opportunities for pushing their limits
• Be generous, tolerant and community minded
• Be a consistent hard worker with strong work ethics
• Be able to live away from home for four to six months

You do not need to be an expert cross-country skier, canoeist or wilder-ness traveler. These pro-grams are about learning! You do need to be open to the challenge of work-ing and training hard, willing to live a simple lifestyle with minimal possessions, and prepared to learn new skills that will allow you to do these things comfortably, safely, and happily.

MULTI-AGE GROUP
We live and work as a community, each member of the group working from his/her strengths. By design, this is a small program. Students receive individual attention from course instructors and follow a study plan specific to their needs.

SAFETY
Core semester program teachers are certified Wilderness First Responders, with many years of experience in prevention and treatment of wilderness medical issues. Common sense and experience combined with careful expedition planning and education of students are our main ways of preventing the need for medical care. Drinking water is given special consideration in Ecuador where we travel with water purification filters.

FACILITIES
Our Base Camp in Marlow, New Hampshire is 75 acres of woods, hills and streams. Meals, classes and living will take place in tradi-tional homes modeled after the indigenous designs from Scandinavia and Mongolia. All heating and cooking is done over open fires or on the wood stove. All electricity is provided through solar panels.

Our northern base-camp for the New Hampshire-Vermont Semes-ter utilizes the land and facilities of the North Woods Steward-ship Center in East Charleston, VT. Through programs with students of all ages, the center works to foster knowledge of, and stewardship for, natural and human communities.

While New Hampshire-Vermont Semester students are on the trail, layover facilities range from local families’ homes and farms to ski centers. One of our layover hosts is Ster-ling College where knowledgeable professors and vast academic resources will be available to students.

The New Hampshire-Ecuador Semester Base Camp in Ecuador is on Hacienda Palugo, located 45 minutes southeast of Quito on about 250 acres of land. It has been a dairy farm with top of the line Brown Swiss cows for the past 25 years. We hand milk around 30 cows daily. All cooking will be done on a wood stove or over open fire. The barn is equipped with solar power. The farm is home to an organic vegetable garden, chickens and horses. We participate in a weekly market where we sell milk, yogurt, cheese, and vegetables, sun dried fruits and bread baked in our homemade mud oven. We are now developing a Biodiges-tor, which will provide gas for lights and barn stoves, as well as liquid fertilizer for the fields.

While the New Hampshire-Ecuador Semester students are travelling they will either camp or live with indigenous fami-lies in or near their homes.

RECEIVING SCHOOL CREDIT
Kroka Expeditions is a Vermont recognized Independent School. Students receive full high school credit, which is transferable to schools in the United States and internationally.Students interested in receiving College Credit may apply to Sterling College.For more information contact Dean PerryThomas.

TO APPLY OR LEARN MORE
Please call us at 603-835-9087 or email us at: lislkroka@gmail.com to request more information or an application package.