Ya’alozu – Mountaineering
The Mountaineering Program develops and strengthens the following areas:
- Leadership qualities
- Self-esteem
- Responsibility
- Happiness through hard work
- Physical and mental endurance
- Love of learning
- A positive attitude toward stressful situations
- Promoting teamwork under all circumstances
- Cultivating the seeds of creativity
Program Features:
- Learn to build fires
- Fish the natural way
- Chop down trees
- Trail-blazing
- Enjoy cookouts for some meals
- Indoor Rock Climbing
- Learn creative and productive uses of a knife
- Learn to make utensils for wilderness living
- Build lookout towers, monkey bridges
- Daily Learning
- Learn Torah as it applies to the woods and wilderness
- Sleep in outdoor tents or bunkhouses in the woods
- Delaware River canoe trip
- Navigate with a compass, and sometimes using the stars
