Wilderness Treks
In 2005 Pete Humbert, Fireman, Primary School teacher and Corporal of the Australian Army Reserves, (1st on the left in the back row) joined Dave to be the co creator of the Wilderness Trek. From many camping trips with Dave out in the desert, Pete and Dave started talking about how this could be a great learning area for students.
Our Wilderness Trek Program is designed to assist students in building :
- Community
- Resilience
- Team work
- Accountability
- An understanding of actions and consequences
- Knowledge of bushcraft and camp skills
- Hiking and orienteering skills
A typical day on the Wilderness Trek involves:
- Students awake at 7am
- Students pack down camp
- Students selected for cooking breakfast meet with student mentor and start cooking at 7.30am
- Breakfast is served 9am
- Weather and safety briefing
- Preparation for walking
- Students commence walking with backpacks
- Every 3km of walking over the day there will be a hydration stop
- Students elected for cooking lunch meet with student mentor and start cooking at 12pm
- Lunch is served at 1pm
- Weather and safety briefing
- Students commence walking with backpacks
- Arrive at new camp spot at 6pm
- Students elected for cooking dinner meet with student mentor and start cooking at 6pm
- Whilst cooking students are making dinner, all other participants will engage in a bush skills activity
- Dinner is served at 7pm
- Camp is built after dinner
- Camp shut down 9pm
Each student is awarded 50 points at the commencement of each day. Students have the ability to lose and earn points. If students are in a group their actions will affect each other’s points. Points are affected by respect, communication, completion and time taken for set tasks. Points received determines the level of luxury items they receive during the day. If a student receives zero points, they will receive only essential items.
