From beautiful Salt Lake City, Kooch-i-ching climbing instructor Michael Martinez shows you how to do a handstand. Don’t forget to stretch!

“We all know that feeling on [a] trip after a long, hard morning of endless paddling and wet portaging…and then your trip head announces that you are going to be stopping and making tuna melts. Although I cannot replicate that feeling, we can make a dang delicious tuna melt.”

From her home in Mexico, Ogichi staff woman Teresa Baños shows you how to transform a boring white T-shirt into a tie-dyed masterpiece in just a few simple steps.

Back by popular demand, Alex Ernst shows you how to tie four useful knots in this video: the bowline, the slip knot, the square knot and the timber hitch.

“Sitting by the campfire in the woods, nothing ever really tastes so good.” We’re talkin’ s’mores! May this melodious rendition of “S’mores”—sung by Ogichi staff women around the world—bring some campfire warmth into your home.

Nice day for a paddle indeed! Except that in this video, Alex uses an ice hook—not a paddle—to maneuver his canoe across a semi-frozen lake in Maine.

“I can’t wait until the day when we get to tie on headbands instead of face masks,” Erica says in this video—and we feel the same way! Until then, enjoy this fun tutorial on how to make your own face mask using materials you can find at home.

He made it about three-fourths of the way across the field before he got stuck. By the time I caught up to him, all that was left was his prosthetic leg, standing at attention, peeking out of the snowpack.

Each day, there was something new to excite and dazzle us: caribou, beavers, bears, lightning, crystal-clear pools, waterfalls, rainbows, rapids, canyons—it felt like we were in Narnia.

“At one point, James’ boots, socks and pants were completely frozen.” Axel recalls. “I still remember him saying, ‘Everything is frozen. I am not having fun anymore!’ I could not stop laughing.”

To stay relevant, we must strive to be best-in-class, to be year-round, and to reach as many young people as possible.

First and foremost, we built Ogichi’s entire campus: over 30 buildings and a tapestry of docks, pathways and landscaping to tie them all together.

In the early 2000s, a small group of people had a dream based on the belief that girls would find joy in the same wilderness trips and in-camp experiences offered to boys at Camp Kooch-i-ching.

Why move to a bohemian surf town on the west coast of Mexico? Isn’t that something kids do right out of college? Not a forty-something couple with three daughters.