Adventure Education
LLDC uses cooperative games, ice breakers, trust activities, and team building challenges as a means of helping individuals and groups engage in a change or growth process.
LLDC has a low-ropes course. Low ropes course challenges are designed to enhance team-building skills. Through the use of cables hung low to the ground, participants use minimal props and one another to navigate the given challenge.
Environmental Education
LLDC is situated on over 300 acres of diverse habitat. Exploration and discovery are at the center of our environmental education philosophy.
Habitat Exploration
Explore the forest, field, and brook playing games, using observational skills, and learn about the plants and animals that live there.
Night Hikes
Night hikes are the highlight of many students and teachers who come for overnights. Groups enjoy the silent hike for all of the nocturnal sights and sounds. Listen for the beaver slapping its tail or the overwhelming sound of spring peepers!
Stream Investigation
Investigate the stream looking for macro-invertebrates (small animals), amphibians, testing the pH, taking the temperature.
Vermont Natural History
Learn about the geology, plants, animals, and unique watershed of LLDC.
Swimming
Celebrate the end of the school year with swimming as part of a program. Certified lifeguards supervise swimmers within a designated swimming area.
Survival Skills
Shelter Building
As part of a team, groups build weatherproof debris shelters that will fit all members of their team.
Orienteering
Participants work in groups on a designated course with a set of compass bearings that they use to find control points (trees). The focus of orienteering at LLDC is to teach basic compass skills.
Fire Building
As part of a team, groups will build a “one match” fire with natural materials that they find in the woods.
Leave No Trace Principles
LLDC follows and infuses the following leave no trace principles into all activities:
- Plan ahead and prepare
- Travel and camp on durable surfaces
- Dispose of waste properly (LLDC has a pack in/pack out policy for garbage)
- Leave what you find
- Minimize campfire impacts
- Respect wildlife