These overnights are a great combination of hiking and camping. Staged in Harriman State Park, unless otherwise noted, these trips allow campers to travel through natural areas experiencing the woods in a conscious and tangible way.
Campers learn how to wear and pack a backpack, how to create a healthy, good tasting but packable menu for the trip, how to read a map, find firewood and even start a fire in wet weather. On backpacking trips campers may hear coyotes howling at night, step carefully around a sunning snake, meet a through-hiker on his or her 2,000 mile journey along the Appalachian Trail and get a chance to make up their own trail name.