August 4-6th: Lake O’Hara Youth Hike

This August, CIM will spend 3-days in one of the most beautiful places on earth – The Lake O’Hara Region.

August 4-6th 2010 for Youth (16-19) with diabetes at Lake O’Hara

Who: Youth (15-19) living with Type 1 diabetes
Where: Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park
When: Wednesday August 4th – Friday August 6th 2010
What: An interior camping and hiking experience led by the CIM team. If you
are interested in some outdoor adventure, meeting some new friends and
learning experientially about diabetes, this trip is for you!
Fee:  $250 per person made payable to ‘Connected in Motion’ (includes all camping fees, food, large equipment, etc. DOES NOT include personal gear or National Park Pass – to be purchased at the park gate on arrival).

Please let us know if you if you need any gear before you go out and buy it!

Renowned for its majestic mountains, peaks and glaciers, alpine meadows carpeted in wildflowers, brilliant turquoise lakes and streams, this region is a hikers dream. The toughest decision to be made on these trips will be WHERE to hike first! From our base-camp at the Lake O’Hara campground, we will have dozens of diverse options for day-hikes – Long and leisurely? Steep and scrambley? Mountains or meadows? Lakes or larches? We will choose hikes that suit our group’s abilities and head out on a new trail each day. Returning to our campground after a great day on the trails, we will work together to cook dinner and complete camp chores. Sitting around the fire, we will share a hearty meal, stories and experiences (some diabetes related no doubt!) from the day before zipping into our tents and sleeping bags.

Lake O’Hara Youth Trip Itinerary:

Day 1:
Hikers will meet a CIM team member at the Lake O’Hara parking lot (off of Highway 1A) at 8:00am to catch the 8:30am shuttle bus to the lodge/campground. After introductions and a quick set up our camp, we will head out on our first hike before 10am.  Returning to our camp late afternoon, we will finish setting up camp, cook dinner and spend the night around the fire.

Day 2:
We will roll out of our sleeping bags (hopefully to the smells of breakfast wafting through the fresh mountain air) and enjoy a hearty meal. After packing our lunches, snacks and water for the day, we will head out for another full day of hiking. Returning to camp, we will cook dinner, relax and get cleaned up. Around the fire, the CIM team will lead an open discussion on diabetes and exercise. Reflecting on our diabetes-related experiences over the past two days and drawing on people’s past experiences and adventures, we will have a chance to share, teach and learn from one another. Tired, but inspired, we will retire to our tents for another deep sleep under the stars.

Day 3:
Out of our tents and into the ‘kitchen’, we will prepare breakfast and pack lunch once again. Today, we will choose a shorter hike to enable us to be back to camp, wrapped up, packed up and on the 3:30pm shuttle out of O’Hara.

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