Fall Trips- Kings Canyon National Park

We begin every school year with our entire community participating in our Fall Trips to Kings Canyon National Park. The goal of Fall Trips is to explore the ideas and foundations of a community.  Students and faculty divide into small groups for a week-long trip in the backcountry where they learn what it means to be part of a community.  Through a variety of different activities and reflections, the students and faculty explore and develop these ideas.  The challenges that are faced, and the camaraderie that ensues, develop problem-solving skills and cultivate respect, which are necessary for a community.  At the end of the week the entire school community comes back together for our Closing Campfire Council at Cedar Grove, in which the different groups share their experiences and what they have learned.  The goal of this Closing Campfire Council is to offer reflection on how we can transfer the ideas of community learned in the backcountry to our daily lives back at school.  We often say that the school year doesn’t really begin until we’ve returned home to BHS after Fall Trips. 

Preparing for Fall Trips

Equipment List

Information about Kings Canyon National Park