Seventh Graders Build Independence, Resilience, and Community at Camp Pathfinder
Posted on October 5th, 2018 by Allendale Columbia Schoolby Aaron Shepard, Rachael Sanguinetti, and Seth Hopkins
Seventh graders went to Camp Pathfinder for five days. Click to view more photos.
Allendale Columbia’s seventh grade recently spent a week hiking, biking, and canoeing in the Canadian wilderness at Camp Pathfinder, a camp for boys owned and operated by AC alumnus Mike Sladden ’76. It’s located on Pathfinder Island on Source Lake in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park. Students spent five days working together and learning a variety of outdoor skills, including fire building and shelter construction. They also explored the history of painter Tom Thomson, a prolific 20th-century Canadian artists who died in the park under mysterious circumstances and was one of the first voices to articulate a Canadian national identity. (more…)
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