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Portage: The Journey Begins
Portage: The Journey Begins is a pre-orientation opportunity of outdoor adventure and experiential learning for incoming freshmen and transfer students. The Portage experience takes place over nine days in mid August, before new student orientation. Portage’s goal is to offer a select group of incoming students a chance to meet new friends, to be challenged, to explore what it means to transition into college life, and to bond with one another at the beginning of a new journey.
Portage participants have a unique opportunity to experience Christian community in the beautiful, wild, and natural environment of northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Together, students will travel through this pristine wilderness by canoeing, portaging (walking your canoe between bodies of water) and camping.
Each Portage group will be led by a trained wilderness instructor skilled in outdoor leadership. Joining that instructor will be a NWC student leader motivated in helping you make a successful transition into life at Northwestern College!
The Portage experience costs $375 and is available to the first 20 students who sign up. (PDF)
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