7th Grade - El Capitan

7th Grade Outdoor Education Camp

El Capitan Canyon Resort, Santa Barbara

September 29 - October 3, 2025

Dear 7th grade families,

Your child has the opportunity to enroll in an outdoor educational experience at the El Capitan Eco Adventure through WOLF Adventures at the El Capitan Canyon Resort near Santa Barbara. The primary focus of the trip is to create an outdoor educational experience that cannot be replicated in the classroom setting. This opportunity allows students to deepen friendships in a new environment. For many students, this will be their first time to have hands-on science experience at the ocean and marine life. The El Capitan Eco Adventure brings together WOLF’s finest offerings in a beautiful setting ideal for environmental study. Students enjoy a year-round riparian environment, easy beach access and ocean opportunities, abundant wildlife, amazing food and cabins, first-rate environmental programs, and a working llama farm. The resort site at El Capitan Canyon supports WOLF’s favorite science, team building, and primitive skills activities such as high ropes climbing, solar boats, giant slingshots, archery, PLS village, Frontier Outpost, botany & microscope, birds of prey, riparian ecology, water testing and so much more.

The trip is scheduled to depart from HMS parking lot at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, September 29th, 2025, and return to the school at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Friday, October 3rd, 2025. The fee to participate is $750. If you need financial assistance to set up a payment plan, please contact the HMS Front Office immediately at (626) 299-7060, and speak with Michelle Boecking, our Accounting Technician at extension 5007. You may also email her at [email protected].

In order to guarantee your child a spot on this trip you must complete the following by no later than Friday, May 23rd, 2025 at 4:00 PM.

1. Complete this HMS Registration for 7th Grade Outdoor Education Camp to El Capitan WOLF Adventures.

2. Submit your $750 payment via check or credit card. You can pay by credit or debit card online at: https://HMSStore.myschoolcentral.com (with your student's ID number). You may deliver the check to HMS by May 23rd, 2025.

3. Complete the Medical Information and Release forms which are listed in Section 8.

Students who complete all forms and submit payment after Thursday, May 23rd, 2025 at 4:00 PM are not guaranteed attendance.

We are grateful for the generous donations from our families, which make experiences like this possible for our students