Good evening and welcome to another edition of the Apogee Summer Blog! Today brought us a number of trip starts all across the continent – from Cape Cod, Massachusetts all the way out to Seattle, Washington! This blog writer, having just turned 30, is feeling sentimental about the blog’s last day in its twenties. Tomorrow,
Welcome, and welcome back to some! Today, we decided to take Fun Fact Friday up a notch and present you with a post full of fun facts about the state and national animals that our trips might encounter. There are so many fun names for groups of animals that we didn’t know about, but we
Welcome back to the Apogee Blog, and wow, do we have some awesome stuff going on today! Five of our trips woke up in the backcountry today, and while some returned to civilization, a few more are preparing to head into the BC tomorrow. Additionally, we’ve got sunrise hikes, European border-crossings, and a few groups
Welcome to Day 26! For those of you who remember Day 13 (looking at you, ECC), we’re taking things up another level from haikus – it’s limerick day! We hope you have as much fun reading about all these awesome adventurers as we did writing about them. Now, about those sonnets… Skip to a Specific
Skip to a Specific Trip: CS, MCCE, MCP, DEXA, DEXB, VMA, VMB, CRLC, CRMC, CMCA, CMCB, AKMCA, AKMCB, NWX, PC, AXA, AXB, ECCA, ECCB, PMC Caribbean Service (CS) This morning our CS squad started their day at the “epic!!” Salt Flats doing some amazing trash clean up to help preserve this beautiful space. After a morning of amazing
If you couldn’t tell by the title of today’s blog, we said farewell to several of our trips today; in fact, FIVE, to be exact! While this means that today saw more than its fair share of earnest goodbyes between new friends, those groups will all go forth with incredible memories and firm bonds from
23 amazing days have already gone by this summer… how in the world did that happen?! Today was another fantastic day for an adventure, with groups crushing the hills of the Black Forrest in Germany, kayaking on BOTH coasts of the USA, celebrating and exploring in their final destinations, hiking in the back country, and
Hello and welcome back to Day 22 of the Apogee summer! Today’s blog title was inspired by a song lyric from one of my favorite bands, U2. I think it represents a lot of what every group tries to accomplish in their day-to-day activities and trip life in general. We have lots of amazing updates
Has it really been three full weeks of the Apogee summer already? Maybe there really is something to that old “time flies when you’re having fun” saying after all! While we’re almost at the halfway point of our summer, many of our trips are at different points in their journeys. No matter how long they’ve
It’s a big day of arrival here at Apogee! Our leaders in Alaska, California, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Spain will all be picking up their next group of students! To these folks, we say “Welcome!!!” While we can’t wait to see what these folks get up to (ice climbing, surfing, zip-lining, snorkeling in tropical