Pecos Adventure Camp
St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Wimberley, Texas
May 3–6, 2005

Location
The Pecos Adventure Camp activities were held at the SHUMLA outdoor campus 50 miles west of Del Rio, Texas.  Additional activities took place on the Shumla Ranch, at Galloway/White Shaman preserve, Seminole Canyon State Historical Park and Painted Canyon.

Instructors
SHUMLA instructors included artist/archeologist
Dr. Carolyn Boyd, archeobotanist Dr. Phil Dering, archeologist Elton Prewitt, primitive technologist Neal Stilley, artisan/flintknapper Steve Norman, artisan/cordage maker Brenda Norman, Tom Glasscock wildlife specialist/state trapper, and storytellers Mike Parker and Mary Locke Crofts.

Activities
Twenty three students and six faculty from St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Wimberley, Texas arrived by Greyhound bus for a 4-day desert experience of a lifetime.  This group of adventurous students embraced the desert through poetry, pictures and stories.

Activities started with tent assignments followed by lunch and a plant walk with Dr. Boyd.  Afternoon events included the lighting of the earth oven (for baking agave) and a reptile talk with Carolyn Todd.  Storytelling with Mountain Man, Mike Parker, and a campfire under the stars ended the first evening. 

The remaining days were filled with hikes to world class rock art sites, fossil hunts and archeology walks.  Thursday afternoon found both students and teachers making cordage, flintknapping, making paint the prehistoric way, and sampling the contents of the earth oven.  That evening Mary Locke Crofts engaged everyone present with her storytelling and imagination. Tom Glasscock shared his experience and observations of animal behavior as they relate to Native American myth.  An impromptu concert by the very talented St. Stephens students was the perfect ending to a great adventure!

Information
For more information about scheduling an adventure program for your school, contact the education division at education@shumla.org or call the SHUMLA office (432-292-4848).