legacy timeline

Camp Kooch-i-ching is established.

Camp Kooch-i-ching officially opens with Cecil "Pop" Vance as director.

Kooch-i-ching I serves as the first big boat.

Bob Townley is recruited from Camp Owakonze during the era of rented canvas canoes and canvas Baker tents.

Ernest Oberholtzer sells 20 acres of Deer Island, giving Camp Kooch-i-ching a home.

Bernard Mason becomes director of Kooch-i-ching, bringing the Law of the Woods.

A new big boat, the Kooch-i-ching II. is purchased.

Aluminum 17" Grumman canoes are introduced, along with smaller wannigans, similar to the ones used today.

The Cruisers Handbook is published.

A bus is used to transport campers to the start of their canoe trip for the first time.

This is the first year for the English River, the first trip outside the “four maps” which hung in John Holden’s cabin.

Camp Kooch-i-ching’s dining hall is built in 29 days.

John Holden creates the Camping & Education Foundation.

John Holden buys the camp's first canoe trailer.

The Green Monster becomes the first camp-owned bus.

Camping & Education Foundation purchases the remainder of Deer Island.

Draw-Tite "hurricane" tents are introduced.

Ron Coleman purchases 15' canoes to enable camper sternsmen.

First time a canoe trip goes to Hudson Bay.

Four-man nylon tents, a backpacking program, and a biking program are introduced.

First backpacking trip goes to the Rocky Mountains.

Tim Heinle becomes Camp Kooch-i-ching’s director, inspiring a “many hands” work ethic.

"Plastic" (crossline polyethylene) canoes are purchased.

Camp Kooch-i-ching Alumni Association is created.

The 46' all-aluminum John L. Holden replaces the Kooch-i-ching II.

Tim Heinle and Steve Applegate create the Camping & Education Foundation Endowment.

The organization begins to explore a camp for girls.

The inaugural Ogichi Daa Kwe trip paddles on the Turtle River with 10 young women and four counselors.

Ogichi Daa Kwe’s hosts its first season, with Kathy Dix as director. They have 20 campers, 14 CITs and 8 trip leaders on Franks Bay.

A new transportation department serves both camps.

Urban Wilderness Program begins.

The Endeavor, the Foundation's newest trip boat, is delivered.

Robert Shuman explores the Horton River on a solo expedition.

Owakonze, a boys camp founded in 1919, becomes the Foundation's remote wilderness outpost.

6 North of 60 is the first women's Arctic expedition, paddling a 750 mile route to the Coronation Gulf in 62 days.

Ogichi Daa Kwe campers canoe down the Mountain River.

Programs explore the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for the first time in decades.

Urban Wilderness builds 20 canoes and leads 25 field trips with over 2,200 students.

The 45-day Kazan 360 Arctic Expedition reaches Chesterfield Inlet.

The Camping & Education Foundation celebrates Camp Kooch-i-ching's 100th summer and Ogichi Daa Kwe's 20th summer.

The Centennial Expedition, named for Camp Kooch-i-ching's 100th summer, paddles 1,165 miles to the Hood River.