This DIG is an exploration of famous camping trips made be writers, explorers, and even American presidents camping trips that then influenced the worlds appreciation for the wonders of the California Backcountry. Lets hike on in
DIG DISCOVERY #1 Who wrote these words about Native Americans and Outdoor Living ? How did he learn this ? .. The Indian is an absolute believer in the virtue of the outdoor life, not as an occasional thing, but as his regular, set, uniform habit. He lives out of doors; not only does his body remain in the open, but his mind, his soul, are ever also there. .. When he learns of white people shutting themselves up in houses into which the fresh, pure, free air of the plains and deserts, often laden with the healthful odors of the pines, firs, balsams of the forest, cannot come, he shakes his head at the folly, and feels as one would if he saw a man slamming the door in the face of his best friend. .
Virtually he sleeps out of doors, eats out of doors, works out of doors. When the women make their baskets and pottery, it is always out of doors, and their best beadwork is always done in the open. The men make their bows and arrows, dress their buckskin, make their moccasins and buckskin clothes, and perform nearly all their ceremonials out of doors.
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What famous explorer and writer said this about living outdoors in the mountains during his first summer in the Sierra backcountry ? This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever. 
Students, we invite you to draw a picture of one of the above OUTDOOR LIVING ADVENTURES and as a class, pick the 4-6 best pictures and send them to Camp so we can include them in our gallery of student art (you can scan them and send them as an email attachment or mail us the originals and we will scan them at the Camp headquarters). The BEST PICTURES will be included in a traveling display that Camp takes to education conferences. 