Trips and Retreats
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A wilderness trip is a wonderful escape from the trials and tribulations of daily life, and a great way to have fun. It is a chance to travel to the unknown and unexpected, to test one's limits, to feel the wild and the real. For most people, this is more than enough. But there is also a spiritual opportunity anytime we journey into the natural world. Most people readily exper-ience awe and wonder in nature but rarely pause to ask: where does awe come from and how can the wonder I feel in nature pervade all of my life? The beauty, the stillness and the immediacy of the wild afford a unique environ-ment to find God and deepen one's experience of the divine. Immersed in sacred wilderness, we discover the sacred in ourselves. |
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Custom Programs • TorahTrek Sampler • Programs for Individuals
Custom Programs
If you're looking for the right TorahTrek program for your family or group, the below sample of TT adventures will whet your palate!  Remember, we'll tailor a program to the specific educational and physical needs of your group in a location of your choice. To contact us about building a custom program, write us at "info" at torahtrek.com. (As spam is a reality, please make it clear in the subject line that you are making a private inquiry.)
TorahTrek Sampler
Yellowstone Kayak
After a motorized shuttle to the southeast finger of Yellowstone Lake, we spend three days paddling and hiking in this pristine area of Yellowstone National Park. Exploring areas accessible only to kayakers, the trip combines breath-taking scenery and backcountry tranquility with the TorahTrek program of learning, t'fila (prayer), song and deep immersion in wilderness. Outfitters Aaron Prusan and Tamsen Kaylor (who Rabbi Comins married last summer) bring a personal touch to the journey. No previous kayaking experience necessary.
To read the information sheet for the 2003 trip, click here.
Yellowstone Kayak 2003 Gallery and Testimonials
HaMakom Soul-O Retreat
Patterned on the Native American "Vision Quest," this Jewish, solitude retreat focuses on the theory and practice of connecting to God through immersion in the natural world. After intensive study and training, participants spend two to four (safe and supervised) days of solitude retreat in pristine wilderness.
To read the information sheet of the 2002 retreat, click here.
See the HaMakom Gallery and Testimonials page. Wind River Range Goat Pack
Wyoming's best kept secret is the Wind River mountain range. The tourists go to near-by Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks, yet the spectacular granite peaks and high alpine meadows, reminiscent of the Sierra Nevada range, are second to none. Goats go where horses fear to tread, shleping our gear without the attitude or the odor. Our outfitter, former NOLS guide Charlie Wilson, brings decades of guiding experience in the Winds to our group. The best of the backcountry without the pack! To see photographs of Rabbi Comins' 2002 goatpack, click here.
High Desert Goat Pack
And Charlie is permitted to outfit in the Escalante National Monument in Utah as well.
Programs for Individuals
TorahTrek offers independent programs to the general public. However, most TorahTrek trips and retreats are sponsored by synagogues and other institutions. Usually these programs are also open to the public.
To view TorahTrek programs open to individual registration, click on the following.
TorahTrek National Schedule
TorahTrek Southern California Schedule
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