An update from the Wilderness Trip Office

Happy New Year!

For the past 20 years the first program of the new year at Chewonki has been a Wilderness Medicine Course. We have a wonderful long standing partnership with Wilderness Medical Associates (www.wildmed.com) who provide the instruction for our Wilderness First Aid Courses. Today is the final day of our Wilderness Advanced First Aid Course that filled with 28 students. After a one day break tomorrow we will welcome 30 students for a Wilderness First Responder Bridge Course. The next WAFA and WFR Bridge Courses are scheduled for May 26-29 and May 31 to June 3, 2010.

Maine received between a foot and three feet of snow from the New Years Day Weekend storm and we are all looking forward to inviting folks to join us for cross country ski weekends at our Debsconeag Lake Wilderness Camps. We rendezvous outside Millinocket and gear is shuttled into camp by snowmobile leaving participants a 10 mile ski with a daypack. The ski in over rolling terrain to the Camps offers stunning views of Mount Katahdin. Accommodations are in comfortable wood heated cabins our Yurts. Meals are served family style in the main Lodge. Days are free to explore on skis or snowshoes or curl up by the wood stove with a good book. The Martin Luther King weekend trip is already filled but there is plenty of good skiing in February and March.

We hope that you will join us for a winter getaway or consider one of our summer trips. We can always customize a trip to suit a group of friends or family. This year we have already scheduled custom trips to canoe the St John River in May,the Allagash in September and to hike in the Torngat Mountains of Labrador in August.