Get Experience! takes eco-programming to the next level. Get Experience! integrates and enhances skills practiced in Get Outside! and adds new skills and experiences for backpacking and rock climbing and for working alongside community professionals.

Get Outside! is not a prerequisite to the Get Experience! eco-program, but we do suggest that teens with limited outdoor experience first participate in Get Outside!.

Get Experience! teens join the fun with overnight camping trips, hikes, rock climbing, and backpacking in backcountry areas throughout the Tucson Basin including Tucson Mountains, Santa Rita Mountains, Rincons and Santa Catalina Mountains.

While having fun, developing expertise, and making personal discoveries in the backcountry teens design, initiate, and drive projects that enhance our urban community and provide important planning and cooperative skills for future leaders.

Get Experience! eco-program is a prerequisite to advanced eco-programs such as Expeditionary Experience!, Epic Experience!, and Mentorship.

ITE IS NOW RECRUITING TEENS

for the Spring/Summer 2009 GET EXPERIENCE! ECO-PROGRAM

VITAL STATS
Eligibility ● interested teens, age 13-15.
Duration ● April 2009-June 2009: 10 Saturdays, 2 Sundays

Place of Exploration ● Sonoran Desert Region/Sky Islands
Fees ● $450 per teen participant (inquire about needs-based scholarship funds)

● April 11 Eco-Program Orientation

● April 18 Community Action Project - Earth Day Event

● April 25 Backcountry Experience

● May 2 Community Action Project

● May 9 OFF

● May 16-17 Backpacking - Santa Catalina Mountains

● May 23 GreenLots! Community Action Project

● May 30 Backcountry Experience

● June 6-7 Backpacking - Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness

● June 13 OFF

● June 20 GreenLots! Community Action Project

● June 27 Community Gathering (parents invited)

E-mail Eric at eric@ironwoodtreeexperience.org or call 319-9868 x 105

Or complete and submit Get Experience Application 2009.