Camp Season: 2005-06-14 to 2005-08-08
Sessions:
Two teams of ten hikers (20 individuals) from each college, church group, organization are encouraged to join us on the very first hiking trips to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park to the Phantom Ranch during a five-day hiking trip during spring breaks in 2009, taking young people who cannot walk. College students will receive academic credit. During each trip each group of 20 students will take two young people who cannot walk to the bottom of the Grand Canyon by way of the Bright Angel Trail, stay the night on the bottom and then hike back out. These will be the very first hiking trail descents to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park by any individuals who cannot walk. Campuses from all around the country can participate. This is an incredibly difficult trip because the trails have over 6,000 erosion logs, so being in shape and able to endure a nine hour descent and a twelve hour ascent working as a team pushing and pulling young people with disabilities down and back out of the world's most famous and most visitied National Park is essential. This trip is enabling the youth of this nation to access for the very first time the world's greatest and most famous natural wonder.
Grand Canyon National Park Trips: March 23-27; March 30-April 3; April 6-10; April 13-17; April 20-24; April 27-May 1, 2009. Cost $1,495. This fee allows you to join a group of other college students who will work as a team during each trip to push and pull two teenagers or young adults who cannot walk, to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park for the very first time in Grand Canyon National Park history. Within each person's trip fee, above the trip costs, are fundraising costs that supports a child with a disability to attend a six day special needs camp during the summertime at Easter Seals Camp Kysoc in Carrollton, Kentucky. The trip fee includes all meals from Sunday evening to Friday evening, two nights camping permits on the bottom, six nights lodging in hotels on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, trip leadership, and the Trailrider and Kili-kart transport units, etc. This is the first trip that has ever been offered in America that will take teenagers and young adults who cannot walk to descend to the bottom and back out of the Grand Canyon National Park via the Bright Angel Trail. Over 36 miles of hiking and over 2 miles of vertical descent and two miles of vertical ascent will occur during each trip.
13-Day Mount Kilimanjaro Ascent and Safari for two individuals who cannot walk or not walk very well per trip.
- (Seven-Day) Mount Kilimanjaro Ascent and (Six-Day) Game Safari: Cost $5,795. Includes all Park entry fees, guides, 8 porters to transport individuals who cannot walk, or not walk very well, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, all meals, transfers and all tips. Does not include airfare, drinks, personal expenses.
Price includes 7 -day Mount Kilimanjaro ascent and 6-day Game Safari. Includes being picked up from the Mount Kilimanjaro International Airport, all transfers, All Park entry fees, three nights lodging at the Springland Hotel, six-day hike to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro using the Marungu Route, all food, mountain guides, assistant mountain guides, porters, cooks, 2 porters per each person who carry 30 lbs. of each person's gear to the 15,520 foot Kibo Hut, all tips, six porters to transport a person who cannot walk to the summit, involving over 51 miles of transport on the trip supplied Kili-kart and Trailrider, and Jim Ebert accompanying you to the summit, (Jim has guided over 250 people to the summit since 1967) etc. Resume www.AlpenglowAdventures.org)
Six -day game safari includes: All Park entry fees, all tips, English speaking drives, 4 x 4 Safari vehicles with removeable roofs, full board lodging including all meals on safari, full day game drives, staying in the top rated Serena Lodges while in the Serengeti National Park (2 nights), Ngorongoro Crater Game Preserve (2-nights) with full day game drive on the bottom of the crater, Tarangire National Park (1-night) and Lake Manyara National Park (1-night).
The 2009 Trip Dates: All of these trips are taking two individuals who cannot walk to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and on a game safari. Others can pay to accompany those who are being transported to the summit. All money above trip costs supports children to attend a 6 -day special needs camp session at Camp Kysoc in Carrollton, Kentucky during the summertime.
August 9-21, 2009
August 23-September 4, 2009
September 20-October 2, 2009
October 4-16, 2009
October 18-30, 2009
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