THE MAINE EVENT - TENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL EVENT 2000
The basic cost of the weekend will be around $250. This includes lodging, meals from Thursday dinner through lunch on Monday, all on site activities, all offsite hikes. Some optional offsite activities will have an additional fee. Lodging will be in cabins or platform tests-some doubles will be available for an additional fee. We encourage early full payment as a way of ensuring your choice of cabin or tent since there are not enough cabin beds for all and they will be assigned on a first paid (NOT FIRST SHOW UP AT CAMP) basis.
We will be arranging for rides between New York and the camp. We will maintain a data base of registrants and try to match people up with people who are traveling to Camp Winona by car. Traveling time by car between New York City and Camp Winona is approximately eight hours. There will also be a van to the camp from the Portland airport at a nominal charge. If you decide to fly, we strongly encourage you to fly into Portland. The camp van will pick you up at the Portland Airport for a $15 cost. There is an option of flying into Manchester, New Hampshire or Boston, Massachusetts. However, we will not provide transportation from these airports. If you are arriving as part of a group it may be economical to rent a car. Also, there is a bus that runs between Portland and South Street Station in Boston on almost an hourly basis. Otherwise we will try to put you in contact with people who are also arriving at the airport or who live in the area. But, we are making no promises or guarantees on transportation from any airport other than Portland. Also, please be aware that traffic from Boston can be heavy on a holiday weekend. It is a minimum 3 - 4 hour ride to the camp from Boston without traffic but on a holiday weekend it could be 4 - 4.5+ hours. Manchester is 2.5-3 hours on a good day.
As usual, there will be a wide variety of on and offsite activities. On site activities this year include: archery, swimming, sailing, canoeing, volleyball, tennis, climbing wall. There may be a possibility of horseback riding at the adjacent stable. (for an extra fee) Offsite activities will include the choice of easy, moderate, difficult hikes. The highlighted difficult hike this year will be on Mount Washington which at 6,288 feet is one of the highest peaks east of the Mississippi River.
Other events include a walking tour of "Jewish" downtown Portland, a guided bird watching hike, and a seaside cliff hike. We will arrange shopping expeditions to nearby Freeport-home of L. L. Bean, and North Conway, an outlet store mecca. We will also be arranging a day of sea kayaking, and hopefully a windjammer cruise for a whale or seal watch.
We promise you won't be bored!
This year, we are going to do something a little different with our evenings. We certainly will still have the all important campfire sing-a-longs, the Saturday evening dance (Looking into swing for this year), and the Sunday evening skits. We will be adding 1-2 hours each night of seminars for people to learn about a variety of environmental
issues, trip leader skills etc. They will be led by our own "homegrown" Mosaic people who have a lot of expertise in their respective areas. We have done this on a smaller scale at the leadership training retreat in Florida and it was enormously successful.
