Sean (middle) and his energetic team: Mel Hoffman, Yami Gutierrez, Anna Greenberg, and Salvador Meza Lemus Whenever Sean McAlindin has a tough day or is struggling to find an answer to one of life’s many problems, he spends the day in the woods, on a hike, camping or rock climbing. Working with Adventure Risk Challenge […]
“Yosemite is the coolest place I’ve ever been!”
“This is honestly the coolest place I’ve been to (along with my hometown in Mexico),” wrote Maria Hernandez, a sophomore at Dos Palos High School, as she sat sitting in front of a campfire in Yosemite. Maria along with her fellow ARC participants had visited Chilnualna Falls earlier in the day and had just finished […]
ARC Receives Epic Promise Support
ARC recently hosted the first retreat for students from Kings River High School in Sanger, California. As ARC explores the feasibility of serving this agricultural community on the outskirts of Fresno, in partnership with Epic Promise a new group of students was exposed to outdoor programming in Tahoe. Kings River is a continuation high school […]
2015 ARC Reunion: Another Fun Challenge
The recent 2015 ARC reunion presented alumni with yet another challenge to add to their already impressive repertoire. The weekend of February 5, with its historic weather event, was a reminder to all that confronting challenges with a positive attitude is a valuable life skill. Twenty-seven ARC graduates traveled into the Sierras on a snowy Friday […]
Turning Life Around with ARC
When you’re a high school sophomore who has never experienced life away from home, forty days feels like a long time to be separated from your family. Francisco del Rio, a 2013 Adventure Risk Challenge summer course participant, described the feeling of leaving home like “the Pacific Ocean was ready to release its massive waves […]
Adventure Risk Challenge: Becoming Yourself
When Karla Hernandez participated in ARC’s 24-day Summer Immersion Course in Lake Tahoe in 2014, she learned that she’s capable of doing whatever she sets her mind to, and that she can be in a new environment with strangers and make them into friends. ARC was not Karla’s first experience of fitting into a new […]