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Crystalaire Adventures

MULTI-DAY SUMMER PROGRAM OF WILDERNESS TRIPS & ADVENTURES FOR TEENS, YOUTH & KIDS

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Explore the outdoors this summer with Crystalaire. We are not your ordinary summer camp – our program focuses on creating an inclusive leadership & team building experience that empowers campers to learn and explore. Our program includes camping, hiking, biking, sailing,  kayaking and additional outdoor activities in the Midwest’s most beautiful locations

Crystalaire Adventures

Where You Create your Own Experience!

Multi-day wilderness adventures in the Midwest’s most beautiful locations. Explore your identity, build community and gain valuable “life skills through outdoor skills!”

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What parents and participants say

[My son] has actually jumped on the bike repair and supply volunteer work for local charities. His sister is doing a school project to help raise funds for supplies to repair the bikes and get helmets, locks, and lights for recipients. This all started because of your [program] last year.

-Parent, Build Your Own Bike

"My daughter talks a lot about the fellowships between participants and being able to share with the trip leaders. She also loved the fact that the leaders gave them the opportunities to lead. What I loved most was the fact that they brought the campers to their level - as peers."
- Parent, Cojourn
“Its not about getting away from it all. Its about getting ready for it all. Learning to live better as you”  
- Micah Leinbach

Our Blog

On Identity Based Leadership

On Identity Based Leadership

November 9, 2016 2268

If you’ve been on a Crystalaire trip you know we talk about a lot of boxes. We draw them in the sand, lay them out in rocks and twigs, or draw them on small portable whiteboards. And then, often, we break them. It’s part of what we call “identity-based dynamics,” and it’s our own twist

From the directors – End of season letter

From the directors – End of season letter

October 25, 2016 2106

Dear Families of Lookout and Crystalaire, We want to thank you for another wonderful summer season at Camp Lookout and Crystalaire Adventures! This summer had many memorable moments, and we are grateful we got to share and create them with your children. The weather was as close to perfect as it will ever be, the

On Agency and Working with Youth

On Agency and Working with Youth

October 24, 2016 1684

Perhaps one of the biggest bummers I can remember from being a teenager was feeling that my emotions were not valid, being made to feel invalid or just young and naȉve,’ as some might say. I was a gawky, semi- (or not so semi) dorky kid; I wore t-shirts that read “Metallica” and “Black Sabbath,”

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Meet Our Staff

Charlie Burnett
Charlie Burnett
Director
Tanner Ruegg
Tanner Ruegg
Guide
Derik Ng
Derik Ng
Guide
Carol Gross
Carol Gross
Guide
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Our Partners

Our sister programs, Camp Lookout and Camp Carvela, operate under the same philosophical umbrella as Crystalaire. What we do in a wilderness setting, they do in a residential setting. Many trip participants start with a camp session but continue their experience through Crystalaire Adventures. Both camps also offer add-on adventures, meaning campers can participate in a session at Camp Lookout or Carvela, then participate on a Crystalaire Adventures.

For more information or to view the camps’ complete summer schedule visit Camp Carvela here and Camp Lookout here.

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