Our trip with the Merriconeag Waldorf School 8th-graders wraps up today, and in fact, as I write, our crew is packing up the last of the bikes and loading into their vans for the trek back to Maine this afternoon. Before the trip is but a memory of sore legs, campfires, and Ben & Jerry’s,
MIKE LESSARD Mia is wielding the saws on the left. A proud and enthusiastic Maine native, Mia Taggart cannot wait to pedal along the coast and through the hills of her home state this summer. She’s no stranger to the Coast to Quebec route, having embarked on Apogee’s CQ trip as a student in 2008.
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
JOSH CUTLER We are delighted to have third-year leader, Anna Minckler (pictured here with her third year co-leader, David Cutler), returning to lead our America Coast to Coast trip this summer after leading our New England Mountains & Coast, Northwest Explorer, and Montana Service Adventure trips in past summers. A rising senior at Lafayette
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
With the daffodils fading and summer nearly upon us, we are busy here at Apogee’s Intergalactic Headquarters gearing up for trips starting very soon. Two months from today, May 2, we will have trips running in Oregon, Montana, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Georgia, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Italy. Yikes. It’s
Happy Spring to all! Flowers are starting to bloom here in Maine, trees are slowly showing their buds, and warmer weather is on the rise. Only 2 ½ months to summer! Again in 2012 we’re making our sharp looking, blue Apogee Bike Jerseys available for purchase to students and families. The cost
Well, hello there, Wide World of Apogee! Warm tidings of the New Year to you all — your humble Apogee directors hope that your 2012 is off to an outstanding start. As it is early January, it’s resolution time — but I’ll leave you those to you. Up here, early January means
Mmm-mmm-mm — I can see it now… A warm fire crackling, snow gently falling outside, a steamy waft of nutmeg and cinnamon rising from the hot eggnog, and all of this enjoyed from within the soft, warm confines of an official Apogee “Leader Gear” Hoodie! That’s right, the very same, super-cool hoodie that our