Sam here, in the quietest day this office has seen in a while (not a phone call to speak of). An incredible and smooth (knock on wood) summer so far, we have officially reached the home stretch as the last trips end one week from yesterday. And what a summer it has been-from flying moose
It’s a veritable Apogee smorgasbord out there today, my friends! Greetings from Brunswick, Maine – Chad here today as Sam enjoys a couple of days away from the helm of the good ship Blog, or something to that effect… We’ve got lots of great shots today – let’s make the rounds, eh? We’re missing pictures
Garth Franklin We are delighted to have Julie Levine back to wind her way over hill and dale as she leads our Vermont to Montreal trip this summer. A rising senior at Colby College, Julie is passionate about everything she does (and there is very little that she doesn’t do!). Growing up in
LAURA ARMSTRONG After a great summer leading our Coast to Quebec trip in 2011, Shem Dixon is ready to take in the ocean views and coastal creeks on our Pacific Coast trip this summer. Hailing from the fresh air and mountain streams of western Maine, Shem is a 2011 graduate of Bowdoin College where he
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.
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
Hello faithful blog readers, Mia and Kevin, your guest bloggers are here for the evening. As we’re not the creative writers in this operation, we thought it would be best to stick to the facts and give you a history lesson as to what has happened on July 20th in years past.
O, Blog Reader, today is the day! Some of you probably thought the whole trip was a fiction to make our little organization seem more international and cosmopolitan, but the proof is in the pixels — please see below! (Note: the email that I received from Nick suggested that there was more
As we’ve said many times, getting the right trip leaders on board is one of the most important elements to running a successful program. Chad and I spent over four full weeks this past winter interviewing prospective leaders and hiring staff. We visited 13 small liberal colleges in the Northeast. Schools like Bowdoin, Colby, Trinity,