On Saturday, August 1, ARC’s 2020 summer participants graduated and returned home after a month of outdoor adventures and reflective writing! In the final week, the students completed a 5-mile run, they performed their poems at Voices of Youth, and they wrote essays capturing the impact of their experience. In the essays, the students described […]
ARC Launches New Website!
ARC is the same age as some our oldest high school participants. We’ve now been offering leadership, wilderness, and literacy instruction for 17 years! This week, we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched a new website, which captures our participants’ experiences throughout these last two decades and offers several new features. If you visit adventureriskchallenge.org, you can find student […]
ARC Alumni Launch YPB!
The ARC Young Professionals Board (YPB) had its inaugural retreat this weekend outside of Sacramento. The creation of this group was inspired by a trail conversation between ARC’s founder, Katie Zanto, and Yami Gutierrez, a graduate from ARC’s 2008 Tahoe summer course. Yami had served on another organization’s Young Professionals Board and wanted to offer similar […]
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 […]
No Longer an Island
Jesus Dominguez-Gomez first read about Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC) in his local newspaper, the Merced Sun Star. Excited and curious about spending his summer in Yosemite, he began to ask teachers and counselors about ARC. Within a couple days of learning about the program and receiving encouragement from his teachers, he submitted his application . […]
Northstar Offers Free Snowboard Day for ARC Students
On the weekend of March 17th, fourteen Adventure Risk Challenge (ARC) students from the Central Valley and the Tahoe region had the opportunity to stay at Hutchinson Lodge at Clair Tappaan and snowboard at Northstar California Resort. For many of the high school students, this ARC trip at Northstar was their first experience snowboarding, and […]