On challenging expeditions such as this, success is often measured rapid by rapid, portage by portage, mile by mile, and day by day as each individual wrestles with his or her own mental and physical fortitude.

First and foremost, we built Ogichi’s entire campus: over 30 buildings and a tapestry of docks, pathways and landscaping to tie them all together.

This May, I will once again pack my three outfits—work Carhartts, evening Carhartts, and going-to-town Levi’s—and, with the faithful Jasper, head north.

In the early 2000s, a small group of people had a dream based on the belief that girls would find joy in the same wilderness trips and in-camp experiences offered to boys at Camp Kooch-i-ching.

Why move to a bohemian surf town on the west coast of Mexico? Isn’t that something kids do right out of college? Not a forty-something couple with three daughters.