HORSE CAMP
Riding - Packing - Wilderness Skills
Activities during camp may include:
Saddling lessons, horse care, safety around horses, western riding skills, horse packing skills, water safety and sports including; kayaking, canoeing, paddle board and tubing, gun safety and shooting, archery, campfire building, camp cooking, cabin and tent camping, wilderness survival, nature studies, wildlife conservation, and more. 
Learn about your horse.
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10 Days in the Alaskan WildernessRide through the rugged, wild terrain of Alaska while learning all about your horse, yourself and wilderness camping.
For boys and girls ages 14-18 of all skill levels. Parents may join the last couple days of camp for a final ride with their kid(s), awards presentation, slide show, and other lodge activities. 
Riding Activities may include a variety of on and off trail riding, up and down hills and mountains, water crossings, difficult terrain navigation and avoidance, how to use your body while riding and to expect the unexpected, do's and don'ts while riding and around horses, riding in groups, leading a group, leading a pack horse, trotting, light running, packing gear on your horse and on a pack horse and more.
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July 6th - 16th, 2023
$8800per person includes charter flights between Anchorage and the lodge,
and all meals, housing and activities while at the lodge.
Parents may join for the last two days, July 14th - 16th, for $1000 per person per day and includes charter flights between Anchorage and the lodge, and all meals, housing and activities while at the lodge.
and all meals, housing and activities while at the lodge.
Parents may join for the last two days, July 14th - 16th, for $1000 per person per day and includes charter flights between Anchorage and the lodge, and all meals, housing and activities while at the lodge.
LIMITED AVAILABLILITY - RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW
SAMPLE ITINERARY
Activities and order of events may change due to weather and conditions.
DAY 1 – Campers arrive 11am. Meet and greet, safety speech, tour of property and lunch. Let campers get settled in then bring horses down and teach saddling lesson, horse safety, and horse care. Go for a ride up Look Out Hill, get off practice tying horses, individual and group pictures, ride down the back side of look out and back to the lodge. After dinner archery, volleyball and go over pack list/gear for the rest of the trip.
DAY 2 - Breakfast then ride by fox den, to burn area and to Puntillas original cabin, then back to the lodge. Practice turning and stopping your horse and asserting that the rider is in control. After lunch go over pack list/gear for rest of the trip then water safety & gun safety discussion and downtime for water sports and shooting activities. After dinner archery, campfire, and volleyball.
DAY 3 – Breakfast, go over food items, then pack up, teach horse packing and pack saddle skills/techniques, then ride out to Half Way Lake. Take turns leading a pack horse and leading the group. Eat lunches on the way or stop for a little picnic. Settle in horses at Half Way Lake, unpack and get settled into camp. Ride down to the Happy river for a river crossing and back to cabin for campfire building and camp cooking lessons. Hot chocolate, s’mores and stories around the campfire.
DAY 4 – Pack up and ride to Sheep Lake with 13 river crossings. Prep for tomorrow's overnight tent camp out.
DAY 5 - Ride into Peak -A-Boo Ponds for an overnight tent camping experience, camp cooking over a fire, wildlife conservation discussions.
DAY 6 – Pack up and ride back to Sheep Lake. Have lunch and re-pack gear and ride up to Rainy Pass Lake. Settle in for campfire and fishing on the Lake.
DAY 7 – Hike up to the highest spot on the Iditarod Trail for pictures, fish in the lake and enjoy their last night out with stories around the campfire or cards in the cabin.
DAY 8 – Pack up and ride back to the lodge. Meanwhile their parents would have flown in that day and be waiting for them at the lodge when they return. Story sharing around dinner that night and volleyball or lodge activities after dinner.
DAY 9 – Kids take their parents for a ride (with counselor supervision), saddle their horses and do the whole thing themselves. Up Look Out Hill with pictures by the cross and down the other side. Other free time for lodge activities, water sports, shooting gallery etc. Presentation/slide show that night with made-up awards for each camper (“funniest horseman”, “most serious rider”, “saddle sore cowboy”, etc.).
DAY 10 – Planes come to bring everyone home, departing around 11am.
DAY 2 - Breakfast then ride by fox den, to burn area and to Puntillas original cabin, then back to the lodge. Practice turning and stopping your horse and asserting that the rider is in control. After lunch go over pack list/gear for rest of the trip then water safety & gun safety discussion and downtime for water sports and shooting activities. After dinner archery, campfire, and volleyball.
DAY 3 – Breakfast, go over food items, then pack up, teach horse packing and pack saddle skills/techniques, then ride out to Half Way Lake. Take turns leading a pack horse and leading the group. Eat lunches on the way or stop for a little picnic. Settle in horses at Half Way Lake, unpack and get settled into camp. Ride down to the Happy river for a river crossing and back to cabin for campfire building and camp cooking lessons. Hot chocolate, s’mores and stories around the campfire.
DAY 4 – Pack up and ride to Sheep Lake with 13 river crossings. Prep for tomorrow's overnight tent camp out.
DAY 5 - Ride into Peak -A-Boo Ponds for an overnight tent camping experience, camp cooking over a fire, wildlife conservation discussions.
DAY 6 – Pack up and ride back to Sheep Lake. Have lunch and re-pack gear and ride up to Rainy Pass Lake. Settle in for campfire and fishing on the Lake.
DAY 7 – Hike up to the highest spot on the Iditarod Trail for pictures, fish in the lake and enjoy their last night out with stories around the campfire or cards in the cabin.
DAY 8 – Pack up and ride back to the lodge. Meanwhile their parents would have flown in that day and be waiting for them at the lodge when they return. Story sharing around dinner that night and volleyball or lodge activities after dinner.
DAY 9 – Kids take their parents for a ride (with counselor supervision), saddle their horses and do the whole thing themselves. Up Look Out Hill with pictures by the cross and down the other side. Other free time for lodge activities, water sports, shooting gallery etc. Presentation/slide show that night with made-up awards for each camper (“funniest horseman”, “most serious rider”, “saddle sore cowboy”, etc.).
DAY 10 – Planes come to bring everyone home, departing around 11am.
Join us for this unique adventure at
the perrins' Rainy Pass Lodge, alaska
(907) 230-6093 (907) 717-7556