“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.

Each set of bustles requires between 35 and 40 hours of labor. Many are dedicated to our distinguished traditions and alumni, and all are reserved for Kooch-i-ching’s most deserving dancers.

Through efforts to engage current staff members and young alumni, and a lofty goal of 250 new donors, we raised more than $825,000 for the annual fund in 2019, the most we’ve ever raised in a single year.

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.

Bill was indeed a giant, Inukpaq. He was a wonderful geographer, a brilliant maker of people’s maps; and he was these things because he cared for others, listened, and was unfailingly loyal to all who had looked to him for help.

As president and CEO of the Camping & Education Foundation, which runs Minnesota wilderness camps Kooch-i-ching and Ogichi Daa Kwe, Haller is ensuring that the tales he was told growing up and the new stories continue through generations.

I was the first camper to enter my tent, which was attached to the tallest pine on the island. The moment I crawled in, I experienced the simultaneous deafening roar of thunder and a brilliant flash of light.

Journalist David Gillette traveled to Ely, Minnesota to learn about the geology, the environmental concerns and the competing politics behind this controversial project.

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.”

The Urban Wilderness Program’s STEM-based boatbuilding program is in full swing and fifth-graders at Kilgour School in Cincinnati completed their third canoe last week.

Of course, it wasn’t enough just to build the canoe. The students put their workmanship to the test during a trip to Otto Armleder Park. After paddling around the Little Miami River, passengers remained dry and smiling. It’s fair to say that their handiwork held up.

At 1.1 million acres, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is one of the largest and most popular backcountry destinations in the U.S. But now the region is facing the threat of sulfide-ore copper mining.

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

On challenging expeditions such as this, success is often measured rapid by rapid, portage by portage, mile by mile, and day by day as each individual wrestles with his or her own mental and physical fortitude.