Happy Fourth of July blog-readers! I hope this post finds you enjoying all kinds of summer holiday fun with family and friends. At the moment, we have pictures from all our trips with the exception of California Mountains & Coast (who are out of cell phone range in the Channel Islands). CI: Everyone knows whales
Greetings faithful readers. Kevin here. With our in house word smith, Chad, on his way back from starting one of our New England Mountains & Coast trips, and Sam taking a much deserved day off (on his birthday no less – Happy Birthday Sam!), you for better or worse have me. I was Geology major
Oh, hey there, everybody. It’s Chad back in the blogging saddle as our perma-guest blogger, Sam Tripp, takes a couple of well-deserved days off. If you know him, or if you just like the way the lad blogs, be sure to wish him a very happy 20th birthday on our Facebook page!
Hi, Blogees. Sam here. As some of you may know, I am a three-time Apogee alum. I returned today to the launching spot for my very first Apogee adventure (Coast to Quebec, ’07) to see off two of this year’s Coast to Quebec trips as well as one of our Downeast
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thus far, the 2012 summer blog has been ably captained by Sam Tripp, ACC ’09, Williams College rising Junior, swell fellow and music aficionado. Your job, fair blog reader, is to decipher the theme in today’s entry — if you don’t get it by PC1A, I’m a little worried about you —
After just one trip start yesterday, the season has truly started to ramp up today with four more trip starts! From Eugene, Oregon to Walterboro, SC, we have trips biking through the breadth of the United States (and will soon have a few in other countries, too)! Despite the weather slowing down some flights, and
And so it begins! Today is the first day of what is bound to be another incredible Apogee summer, which means that leader training is just wrapping up. Below is a photo taken by our very own Jess Sheldon, featuring the biking leaders playing with sparklers at Pemaquid Point on their training ride, and below
While the “season” has not officially started, we have the privilege of guiding the entire eighth-grade class from Freeport, Maine’s Merriconeag Waldorf School on their end-of-year trip. Several of Apogee’s tried and true leaders, Mike Lessard, Julie Levine, Susie Hufstader, and Nick Smith are biking through Vermont’s verdant hill and dale this week with 17
MCKAYLA DUNFEY The pride of Glastonbury, Connecticut, Shannon Usher is looking forward to the bike trails and sea breezes she’s going to find on our Cape Cod & the Islands trip this summer. Shannon is a rising junior at Amherst College, where she studies economics. She also spends a lot of time on
CC GENSHEIMER Micah Rose, a native of the green hills of Williston, Vermont, grew up hiking on Vermont’s Long Trail, paddling on Lake Champlain, and skiing his way through the long Vermont winters. Micah studied anthropology and sociology at Swarthmore College, and is looking forward to graduating this spring. We’re thrilled to have Micah onboard