Interpretive Exhibit Grand Opening!

We've put alot of hours and time into creating the new exhibit in the Nordic Lodge. The information presented in the illustration, charts, maps and text is really an outline of the concepts we try to get across to students at SnowSchool. Many people have spent long days and nights putting this project together, sothis event will be a real celebration of a true community effort. Come join us at the Nordic Lodge around 11AM Sunday January 25th. Expect the usual variety of nordic skiing, snowshoeing, iglooingand other fun winter activities.

SnowSchool Dinner and A Movie Fundraiser!

Thanks to our friends at the Nordic Group we would like to invite everyone to join us Monday February 2nd for our first annual Banff Mountain Film Festival and Dinner @ the REEF fundraiser.  $39/person - includes both dinner and a ticket to the BMFF. There is a limit of 50 people and the proceeds go to supporting the SnowSchool program at Bogus Basin.   If you haven't been, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is an amazing event that has definitely inspired many outdoor enthusiasts to further their own adventures.  This unique opportunity combines the BMFF with wonderful meal at the REEF Restaurant - Main/6th downtown Boise.  To buy tickets go to the Nordic Group website:

http://www.bogusbasinnordicgroup.org/

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 - Orientation for New Volunteers @ REI Boise:
This is for folks who have never been a part of SnowSchool but would like to get involved! Veteran volunteers make sure to tell your outdoorsy friends and family members about this cool opportunity!
 

Friday, November 7th, 2008- Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival @ The Egyptian Theater:
Check out these new films and get excited about skiing, snowshoeing, boarding and whole the winter season!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - Orientation for Returning Volunteers 6PM@ the Foothills Learning Center:
This is for our veteran volunteers to reunite with the SnowSchool team, sign-up for available days and help us get ready for the new season.

Saturday-Sunday, November 22-23, 2008 - Leave No Trace Training for SnowSchool volunteers @ the SnowSchool Yurt: An optional but fun opportunity to learn backcountry skills and etiquette from the pros at Leave No Trace and hangout with Team SnowSchool. Contact Kerry or Lana for more information.

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - First On-Snow Training for Volunteers 9AM - 4PM @ the Frontier Point Nordic Lodge:
This is for all volunteers to come experience what a full day of SnowSchool is really like. We will learn excellent SnowSchool teaching activities, group management techniques, familiarize ourselves with the trails and sign up for available days. All volunteers must attend at least one On-Snow Training.

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 - Second On-Snow Training for Volunteers 9AM - 4PM @ the Frontier Point Nordic Lodge:
This is for all volunteers to come experience what a full day of SnowSchool is really like. We will learn excellent SnowSchool teaching activities, group management techniques, familiarize ourselves with the trails and sign up for available days. All volunteers must attend at least one On-Snow Training.

Come see what's new with SnowSchool! 

Once again Winter Wildlands Alliance and SnowSchool will be around to answer you questions about how to get your students involved in the best winter field trip experience in the Treasure Valley. Sign up sheets and volunteer information will be available. Forget summer, winter is cool! 

September 11th

4:30 - 7:00 PM

Zoo Boise

If you are around the nighborhood, don't pass up REI's Friends and Family Event on Saturday, July 17th at 6 PM. SnowSchool Coordinators will be there to sign up volunteers for the 2008-2009 season and give away cool raffle items!

This talk relates very well to SnowSchool and our efforts to connect youth of the Treasure Valley to nature through snowshoeing and educational activities. It is sponsored by the Idaho Earth Institute and here is their announcement:

Join the Idaho Earth Institute for a Turtle Talk presentation on Friday, April 18^th, from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Room 215 of Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Avenue. There you will learn more about the issue of nature deficit disorder, and you’ll gain an optimist’s perspective on positive ways to combat the widening disconnect between young people and the natural world.

With their fingers on the buttons of their video games, iPods and cell phones, many young people today are more connected and involved with electronic devices than they are with the non-electronic, natural world outside their back doors. Although they are at risk from nature deficit disorder, they live in a society that is also largely separated from nature, so the risks are seldom recognized. How can we reconnect young people with the natural world to promote a sustainable future?

Our speaker, Dick Jordan, has been involved with bridging the gap between people and the natural world for more than thirty years. He’s the president and founder of TREE (Teens Restoring Earth’s Environment), and has taken 15 TREE groups to Belize and Ecuador to study their unique cultural and biological diversities. Dick has taught biology and environmental science and chaired the science department at Timberline High School since it opened in 1998. His outdoor interests include white water rafting, scuba diving, and raptor rehabilitation. He is also the Northwest U.S. Regional Outreach representative of Jatun Sacha (Ecuador’s premier environmental NGO), and vice president of Wilderness Science Explorers. Dick has supported IEI’s mission by coordinating IEI discussion courses with Veronica Daley Zaleha for students at staff at Timberline High School. Also, Dick Roy, the founder of the NWEI, was a guest speaker in his classroom.

This month's topic relates most closely to the Healthy Children - Healthy Planet topic in the NWEI offerings. For more about this particular book, go to http://www.nwei.org/discussion_courses/course-offerings/heathty-children-healthy-planet and http://www.nwei.org/files/2-sided%20HCHP%20description-reading.pdf