To ponder:  Here are a few thing that typically happen for people who embark on wilderness adventures together:

1. Communication: (to share your heart, be heard, to listen to others, and to be known more intimately)
   
2. Community:  a sense of team work, skill development, decision-making skills (which is crucial for early adolescent development), a sense of belonging, serving one another.
3. Adventure: The greatest adventure for any child of God (whether they know it yet or not) is to know God through Jesus Christ; to take pleasure in Him, realizing that He delights in you, and to ultimately choose a life of loyalty to Jesus Christ.  Adventure forces us to drop our masks, it sheds lights on the shadows where we are hiding, and exposes our true nature and design, which is to be close with our Loving Father and to desire what the Holy Spirit desires which is contrary to our sinful nature.
4. Encouragement:  Having leaders who know how to invest in you as a young person in such a way that your potential for serving God is increased.
5. Vision Casting:  Gaining perspective on where you have been spiritually, where you are at the moment with God, and where you are going in the future.
   
6. Teaching: We make our best effort to teach experientially like Jesus did, taking advantage of timing and setting to teach the Gospel and other Kingdom principles which relate to their lives in the pristine beauty of God's Creation.
7. Prayer: (Talking to God honestly, humbly, bluntly, and expectantly.  Realizing that He listens to me.  Learning to hear Him speak to me, and focusing my energy on listening to what He is saying to me)