After three years exploring new canoe routes, the Seniors will return this summer to the Hudson Bay hamlet of Churchill.

The world has changed, and Kooch-i-ching now offers something more critical than ever: a break.

Final preparations are underway on Rainy lake for the most ambitious Arctic expedition ever mounted by a group of Kooch-i-ching staff men.

As a trip head in the summer and a school teacher in the winter, I see more change in a boy over the course of a 10-day canoe trip than I do during an entire school year.

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.

If it is during a camper’s Prep and Junior years that the seeds of his growth are planted, then it is during his CIT summer that we begin to see fruit.