SARTELL, MINN. – For over 50 years a Minnesota nonprofit has been taking high school kids on a life-changing experience. Sartell-based Les Voyageurs Inc. offers students in 10th-12th grades a month-long canoe trip into the remote wilderness in Canada. Program Director Jack Grabinski says the cost is $2,900 per person but that includes most of the gear and food you need to survive.
He says the only thing paid out-of-pocket for would be the clothes worn by those on the trip so the cost outside the fee is considered “pretty minimal.”
Grabinski says they also do a lot of preplanning and preparing with the group months before they go. Crews of nine people including the trained guides will be leaving this summer. They have both boys’ and girls’ crews.
Interested students can attend one of several informational meetings through January. They have over 3,000 alumni since the program began back in 1971.
