At 6PM tonight at Sierra Meadows in Awahanee (close to Yosemite and Oakhurst), eight ARC students will be performing beautifully-crafted stories of hardship and success. The event is deeply moving and the students have been preparing for Voices of Youth since their first wilderness expedition over a month ago in Hetch Hetchy. Four staff have […]
Tahoe Staff Team Guides Students Through 34 Days of Adventures!
Our Tahoe course is nearing its close and the group is at Sagehen Creek Field Station for their final basecamp! On day 30 of 34, we would like to acknowledge the incredible work of the Tahoe staff team. The team has guided the students on three wilderness expeditions, led them in creative writing exercises, journaling, and […]
Meet ARC’s 2019 Sequoia Staff Team
ARC’s Voices of Youth performance for the 2019 Sequoia 25-day Course will take place in Three Rivers at St. Anthonys Retreat at 6PM this Thursday, July 18th. Three dedicated and hard-working staff members have guided the students through their experience, including two backpacking expeditions and two academic basecamps. The staff helped students navigate through snow on […]
ARC Alum Becomes A Cowboy Conservationist
Charly Mijares spent a lot of his childhood in the outdoors, but it wasn’t the glaciated peaks of Yosemite’s high country that were his first stomping grounds. From the time he was ten years old, he remembers, he would help his father weed out pomegranate orchards, train horses, and build irrigation ditches. He says, “In […]
From Venezuela to Lake Tahoe – A Remarkable Story
Forty days and thirty-nine nights living in the High Sierra wasn’t the biggest challenge that Virginia had experienced since her 15th birthday in January 2018. When she received the news that she was selected for the ARC summer course in Tahoe, it wasn’t even her most life-altering phone call in the last year. On August 18th 2017 […]
Thank You Alpenglow Sports and Tahoe Community!
Gratitude is an important part of the organizational culture of Adventure Risk Challenge. There’s rarely a shortage of gratitude within the ARC community, but this season helps focus attention on the reasons why that is so. As we reflect on a few events and gatherings in November, we’re feeling particularly grateful for the communities of ARC alumni and volunteers and for […]