Bike Touring with Camp Orkila
Hike and Bike
A one-week expedition that combines bike touring in the San Juan Islands and backpacking and camping in Moran State Park.
A one-week expedition that combines bike touring in the San Juan Islands and backpacking and camping in Moran State Park.
Objectives
• Provide teens with a safe outdoor experience.
• Challenge teens in new ways, while being in a safe and supportive
environment.
• Be a part of a close-knit group and learn successful techniques to operate in a
group.
• Learn new peer-to-peer leadership styles and practice leading a group of peers.
• Learn and practice practical skills such as cooking on a camp stove, setting up
camp, making a fire, traveling in a group and the technical skills of bike touring and backpacking.
Program Details
• Campers stay in open-air cabins in at Camp Orkila one to two nights at the start of their program and one to two nights at the end of their program.
• When groups are in the field they stay in organized city, state, federal or private campgrounds. Groups sleep under tarps, which they set up. Tarps are single sex.
• Campers must perform a swim check prior to departing camp.
• Biking takes place in the San Juan Islands. Participants will hike into and camp at our private Twin Lakes campsite in Moran State Park on Orcas.
• Ride 10 - 20 miles daily, hike 2 - 5 miles daily.
• Safety protocol requires staff to contact camp via radio or cellphone at least two times a day.
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila
Day 2: Bike to Mountain Lake (Orcas)
Day 3: Bike to Twin Lakes (Orcas)
Day 4: Bike to Indian Cove (Shaw)
Day 5: Bike to Odlin (Lopez)
Day 6: Stow bikes for the day and hike on Lopez
Day 7: Return to Orkila
Day 8: Closing and return home
San Juan Biking
A one-week bike touring journey around the San Juan Islands.
Objectives
• Provide teens with a safe outdoor experience.
• Challenge teens in new ways, while being in a safe and supportive
environment.
• Be a part of a close-knit group and learn successful techniques to operate in a
group.
• Learn new peer-to-peer leadership styles and practice leading a group of peers.
• Learn and practice practical skills such as cooking on a camp stove, setting up
camp, making a fire, traveling in a group and the technical skills of bike touring.
Program Details
• Campers stay in open-air cabins in at Camp Orkila one to two nights at the start of their program and one to two nights at the end of their program.
• When groups are in the field they stay in organized city, state, federal or private campgrounds. Groups sleep under tarps, which they set up. Tarps are single sex.
• Campers must perform a swim check prior to departing camp.
• Biking takes place in the San Juan Islands.
• Ride 10 - 20 miles daily (two to five hours)
• Safety protocol requires staff to contact camp via radio or cellphone at least two times a day
Sample Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive at Camp Orkila
Day 2: Ferry to Lopez Island, stay at Odlin County Park
Day 3: Day ride around Lopez, stay at Odlin County Park
Day 4: Take the ferry to San Juan Island. Camp at San Juan County Park
Day 5: Day ride around San Juan Island, Camp at San Juan County Park
Day 6: Ride to Shaw Island, Camp at Shaw Island County Park
Day 7: Ride to Orcas Island, closing at Orkila
Day 8: Return home