Alaska Adventure Trips 

Adventure >> Intense Impact
Trip Length - 15 days
Age level - High School
Group Size - 10-15 participants (maximum 15)
Dates - Summer
Cost - $1580
(excludes airfare to Anchorage and vehicle rental in Alaska; includes flight inside Alaska)

Call for availability: 877.502.0699

Price Includes:
Pre-trip training material - Passport
Online Access to the LeaderTreks Leader's Manual
On-trip devotional - LeaderTreks Trip Book
Full-time, professional staff
Food (except for any meals out), housing, and work project supplies
Bush plane flight to remote villages
Challenging home repair work projects
Challenging VBS or other ministry opportunities in remote villages
Wilderness skills training with orienteering
All needed equipment except sleeping bags and personal items
6 days of Backpacking 
Last night in a hotel
Post-trip training material - Mission Life  

Optional: Follow-up devotional book, Assessment, Training Event, and T-shirt

Wilderness
Chugach National Forest is located 2 hours southeast of Anchorage, Alaska. On this trip your team will experience challenge, team unity and growth, a remote wilderness experience, and great wildlife along the way. Once the backpacks are on, your team will be pushed to communicate and work together as they navigate around mountains, through valleys, and across rivers. This is one of LeaderTreks more remote sites as it provides students the opportunity to push themselves to their potential.

Missions
In remote villages along the western coast, north of the Bering Sea, and along the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, LeaderTreks is bringing the good news of Jesus Christ. Many of the village people struggle deeply with drug addiction and alcoholism. The children in these areas are often abused and neglected. Your team's presence in these villages will make a lasting impact, and relationships that start there will have an eternal impact. They will experience a once in a lifetime adventure flying on the bush planes of Alaska as they travel to a remote Eskimo village to minister. They will give more hugs, piggyback rides, and will play more games than ever before. You can expect changed lives on this trip both in the village with the people to whom you will minister and in the lives of your students as they learn what it means to be leaders in Christ's Kingdom.

The 52-week advantage for your youth group:
Trip benefits for your students

• Teamwork
• Confidence
• Desire to study God's Word
• A vision for the lost
• Motivation to grow youth group

Work Projects:
Your team will do a variety of light work projects including carpentry work, painting and basic home repair.

Ministry Opportunities:
Your students will run an afternoon Vacation Bible School for the as many as 50 children (in a village of 300). They will also host a nightly "teen time" where they will reach out to the teens in the village as they build relationships playing games, talking, playing basketball and simply hanging out.

Typical Calendar:
Day 1: Arrive in Anchorage. Travel to wilderness site - begin backpacking adventure.
Day 2: Backpack in the Chugach National Forest
Day 3: Backpacking
Day 4: Backpacking
Day 5: Backpacking
Day 6: Hike out of wilderness. Pack and prepare for village.
Day 7: Fly to village on bush planes.
Day 8: Get settled in, meet hosts, advertise for VBS and prepare for work project.
Day 9: Work - VBS
Day 10: Work - VBS
Day 11: Work- VBS
Day 12: Work - VBS
Day 13: Ministry wrap up. Say goodbyes. Fly to Anchorage. Hotel stay - dinner out.
Day 14: Whitewater rafting with Class IV Whitewater.
Day 15: Depart Anchorage.

Options:
Denali National Park visit, sea kayaking, Kenai Fjords National Park visit, or whale watching in Prince William Sound.