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Many cultures have traditions of teachers and students spending time in wilderness. We’ll let wilderness work in us, inspire us, and help immerse us in writing. Carrying our own food and shelter will focus us, and open new outlooks on sustainability. We’ll live Leave-No-Trace ethics as we paddle to Squaxin Island and hike and backpack in the Olympic and Cascade Mountains. We’ll write daily and we'll read, seminar and critique, with ongoing in-depth faculty feedback.

This all-level program could be an orientation for incoming students, and a chance for anyone to engage deeply with writing, and/or produce a finished publishable manuscript.

Participants need to be able to carry a 40-pound pack for up to six hours on backpacking days.

Quarters

Summer Open

Location and Schedule

Final Schedule and Room Assignment

• Summer

Campus Location

Olympia

Off-Campus Location

wk 1: Capitol State Forest

wk 2: Hoh Rainforest (Olympic National Park)

wk 3: Hope and/or Squaxin Island & Olympic National Forest

wk 4: Olympic National Forest & Mt. Rainier

wk 5: North Cascades National Park

Time Offered

Day and Evening

Advertised Schedule