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Evaluating Tremont's Impact
Learn why your school's visit to Tremont will be "more than just a field trip."
Venture into the heart of the Great Smoky backcountry, spending 7 days and 6 nights among a community of teenage outdoor enthusiasts like you! Grow as a leader among your generation in understanding outdoor living ethics, as well as learning firsthand about the animals and plants that call these mountains home. Become accustomed to the peace and pace where the sound of cars and civilization don’t intrude – where you can fall asleep to the sound of a wild mountain stream. At trail’s end there’s a hot shower waiting as well as a day of whitewater rafting...
Slip into the swirling mists of the “place of blue smoke” for a 10-day program that includes a 7 day/6 night backpacking adventure, whitewater rafting, and the chance to learn outdoor living skills. Wildlife, good friends, spectacular views, and great backpack leaders will accompany your journey.
Program lasts from Monday mid-afternoon through the second Thursday morning.
Cost: $875. Ages 13-17.
Financial aid is available for applications submitted by April 1. Please call 865-448-6709 for details.
MONDAY
2–4pm Check-in and move into lodge
4:30pm Welcome and Orientation
5:30pm Supper
EVENING - Backpack equipment check and Preparation
- Tents, packs, clothing, group equipment, food
- Leave No Trace principles
- Team-building
9:30pm Snack
10pm Bedtime
TUESDAY
8am Breakfast
MORNING - High Ropes Course
12:30pm Lunch
AFTERNOON Backpack Preparations, then swimming and tubing the Middle Prong
5:30pm Supper
EVENING Backpack Preparations and Team-Building, then Campfire and snack
10pm Bedtime
WEDNESDAY – Trip begins
8am Breakfast
9am Final Preparations and departure
TYPICAL DAY IN THE BACKCOUNTRY – 7 DAY TRIP
8am Wake-up
- Begin breakfast preparations
- Pump drinking water from closest water source
- Clean-up and tent breakdown
- Pack gear
- Sight-sweep area before departure
9:30am Stretch before hike
10am–4pm Hike & Explore Great Smoky Mountain Wilderness
4pm Reach Campsite
- Scout sites for tents and set up
- Locate bear-bag cables
- Pump drinking water
- Consolidate group gear
5pm Solo Spot (Quiet Time)
6pm Dinner
7pm Clean-up
- Clean cooking site
- Hang bear bags
8pm Campfire and Group time
10pm Bedtime
TUESDAY – Return to camp
2pm Arrive at Tremont and Unpack
- Set-up tents to air out
- Clean and store all gear
3–5pm Tubing and swimming at river
5:30pm Supper
8pm Campfire
10pm Bedtime
WEDNESDAY
8am Breakfast
MORNING & AFTERNOON: WHITEWATER RAFTING
5:30pm Cookout in camp
8pm All-camp Adventure Game
9:30pm Snack
10pm Bedtime
THURSDAY
8am Breakfast
9am Pack and clean-up lodge
10:30am Pick-up and goodbyes
See you next year!
Mountain Challenge at Maryville College
Our first full day together will be spent at the nationally renowned Mountain Challenge at nearby Maryville College. As a group and in small teams we’ll work together to accomplish team-building activities that will include a ropes course along with a high level Alpine Challenge. Guaranteed, this is unlike anything you’ve ever done before. It will be a great way to begin camp, get to know one another, and make new friends.
Whitewater Rafting
This year we’ll spend not just a few hours but an entire day rafting on one of our region’s most gorgeous waterways. The French Broad River is free-flowing (not dammed) and includes Class II, III & IV rapids. We’ll raft both the Upper and Lower sections of the river. It will be a spectacular way to celebrate a successful end to backpacking adventure.