Lake Tahoe Kayak Tour

Title: Lake Tahoe Kayak Tour
Location: Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Description: What’s the best way to see the Thunderbird Lodge and explore Lake Tahoe’s magnificent Eastern Shore?

By making a $40 donation to Project Great Outdoors and joining Giant Kid Adventures on Saturday, June 12 for a day of kayaking, swimming, sightseeing and photography.

Meet at us Sand Harbor at 9:00 am. Bring a small cooler with your favorite snacks and beverages (aluminum and plastic only), explore Lake Tahoe for a great price and help support the Giant Kid’s favorite nonprofit organization. What better way to spend a day?
Space is limited.
Sign up early by emailing info@projectGO.org
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2010-06-12
End Time: 17:00

Dustin’s Bike Ride Benefit featuring Birdog

Title: Dustin’s Bike Ride Benefit featuring Birdog
Location: Red Rock 241 S. Sierra St. Reno, NV
Link out: Click here
Description: Come on down to the Red Rock 241 S. Sierra St. Reno, NV and shake your booty to Birdog. This show is a benefit for Project Great Outdoors.
Start Date: 2010-04-30
Start Time: 8pm
End Date: 2010-05-01
End Time: 2am

Fundraising White Water Rafting Trip

Title: Fundraising White Water Rafting Trip
Location: Coloma, CA
Description: Thanks to AWA we are able to put together a fund raising trip this year!
This will be an wonderful white water rafting trip that will include all put-in/take out fees, all rafting gear required to run the river, and a delicious lunch.
We ask that you pay $25 to cover the actual hard cost of running the trip, and that you make an additional contribution of whatever you can afford. Commercial outings of the sort we are offering typically cost between $100 and $150. Whatever you contribute beyond the $25 fee will go straight to the programs of project GO, Thanks to AWA and our qualified volunteer guides. Our Mission is to guide youth towards broader perspectives and self-discovery through adventures in the great outdoors. Contact info@projectgo.org for more information and to sign-up. Spaces are limited so sign up early!
Start Time: 09:00am
Date: 2010-06-05

Swift Water Rescue Class

Title: Swift Water Rescue Class
Location: Coloma, CA
Link out: Click here
Description: An amazing class through Sierra Rescue. Cost for PGO Volunteers is discounted: $235 for new certs and $175 for recerts (choose the pay by check option), an amazing deal! Sign-up on the Sierra Rescue website or e-mail Serena for more information.
Start Date: 2010-03-27
End Date: 2010-03-28

PGO Meeting

Title: PGO Meeting
Location: Sierra Nevada House
Description: This will be a time to learn about and participate in the goals and direction of Project GO. An agenda will be put together and sent out soon! RSVP to Serena.
Start Time: 09:00am
Date: 2010-02-20

Train the Trainer

Title: Train the Trainer
Location: 145 Taylor at Eddy Street, San Francisco
Description: Guide Training is Approaching Fast be sure to attend this informational day about training our future guides. More information on location, content, and what to bring will be updated as the day approaches. RSVP to Serena.
Anyone can attend, attending this seminar confers no official “status.” You’re not a “trainer” just because you spend a day at a seminar. Spending the day does, however, help you gain skills or improve your existing skills, which makes it that much more likely that you’ll be willing to be a trainer, and that a training coordinator will invite you to train.
Start Time: 9:00am
Date: 2010-03-13
End Time: 17:00

Season Opening Weekend

Title: Season Opening Weekend
Location: Lotus, CA

Description: A day to celebrate the beginning of the 2010 season with informational workshops to be announced. RSVP to Serena by Friday, February 14th please be sure to include if you are camping and boating.

Rusty Guide Boating on Sunday! Work out the kinks of the off season and get a chance to see some wild flowers and wild life (including your fellow guides) This will be a shared cost trip.

Project GO will reserve a campsite at Camp Lotus, please make sure that you pay all your camping and day use fees when you arrive. Food plans have not been set yet, if you would be willing to help with the food for the weekend contact Serena.

Start Date: 2010-05-22
End Date: 2010-05-23

Summer Guide Training

Title: Summer Guide Training
Location: Camp Lotus, CA
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2010-06-26
End Date: 2010-07-04

Summer Guide Training

Title: Summer Guide Training
Location: Camp Lotus, CA
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2010-06-19
End Date: 2010-06-20

WAEE Conference

Title: WAEE Conference
Location: Granlibakken conference center
Link out: Click here

Description: “At our conference we hope to bring together fresh ideas for you — for your workplace, your own vision, your own nonprofit, your classroom, your life.” Excerpt from Facebook
Start Date: 2010-04-23
End Date: 2010-04-25