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Experience the antiquities of the Southwest at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
Photo: Ashley Wise |
New Mexico’s Gila Range is the birthplace of the American concept of wilderness, protected by Congress 40 years before the Wilderness Act was passed.
The Gila today remains the same as it was then, a wild place of amazing contrasts and abundance. You’ll live here for 28 days, hiking beneath the same tall pines and up the same deep canyons that inspired the wilderness concept.
On some days you’ll start on a snow-covered peak and arrive in a warm desert canyon at day’s end, the same canyons inhabited 900 years ago by the Mimbres culture and 100 years ago by the Apache. They chose this wild place for many of the same reasons you will: its beauty, abundant animal and plant life, fantastic variety of terrain and, most of all, its power to inspire the spirit.
Gila Range Backpacking
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| Duration: |
30 days |
| Age: |
16 and Over |
| Tuition: |
$3,650 |
| Dates: |
April 10-May 9, 2008
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College Credit:
(Optional) |
6
Semester Credit Hours
2 Hours Biology
2 Hours Leadership Techniques
2 Hours Environmental Ethics
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| Course start/end: |
Tucson, Arizona |
| Equipment Deposit: |
$350 |
| Fly in/out: |
Tucson, Arizona |
| Downloads: |
Course Description
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Equipment List
(pdf) |
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