Maria Sanchez began the ARC Summer Course in Tahoe with little confidence in her ability to complete what she started. Yet, as one of the most engaged and enthusiastic ARC alumni over the past two years, she has proven that pushing through is a benefit to herself and an example to others. Joining ARC after […]
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 […]
Say “YES!” to Adventure Risk Challenge
“Am I really going to do this?” Brock Sanders asked himself. “Am I doing the right thing? What am I going to get out of this?” Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC) had offered Brock a spot in their leadership and literacy summer course, but he couldn’t imagine spending 40 days away from home, hiking through the […]
My ARC Experience
Hey there! My name is Salvador Meza Lemus and today I would like to share with you my experience with the ARC program. It has already been 4 years since I graduated from the 40-day course in Yosemite. My group name was the “Hardcore Mosquitoes” and together we made unforgettable memories. Joining ARC has been […]
Finding Oneself with Dahlia Santiuste
Dahlia Santiuste was at a crossroads when she arrived to the Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC) summer immersion course. She had just completed her senior year of high school in Atwater, CA and was unsure of her future. She had turned down an offer to play softball at a distant east coast college. The local colleges […]