Ilana Kingsley
3401 Monadnock Ridge, Efland, NC 27243
Tel: (h) 919-563-9947
email: inewby@prairienet.org

Instructor, Voyageur Outward Bound School. Ely, Minnesota, Summer 1999 .

• Led one 28 day Ascent courses. Worked with youth-at-risk paddling the Boundary Waters. Assisted with climbing and ropes course. Worked with students and their parents to help them heal their relationships.

Instructor, Hurricane Island Outward Bound. Baltimore, Maryland, Summer 1998 .

• Led one 14 day open-enrollment youth course, ages 15-17. Paddled for one week on the Potomic River. Backpacked for one week in Big Savage Mountain, Maryland. Ropes, rocks, solo & service included.

Instructor, Voyageur Outward Bound School. Ely, Minnesota, Summer 1997 .

• Led two 28 day Ascent courses. Worked with youth-at-risk paddling the Boundary Waters. Assisted with climbing and ropes course. Worked with students and their parents to help them heal their relationships.

Instructor, Voyageur Outward Bound School. Ely, Minnesota, Summers 1996, 1995.

• Led one 3 week Youth Leadership (YLP) course. Paddled the Boundary Waters. Assisted and instructed in ropes course and rock climbing.

• Led two 28 day Ascent courses. Worked with youth-at-risk paddling the Boundary Waters. Assisted and instructed in ropes course and rock climbing. Consulted with students and parents via contracting sessions.

Assistant Instructor, Touch of Nature, based in Carbondale, Illinois, Summers 1994, 1993.

• Led three courses for ajudicated youth and youth-at-risk males (ages 13-17) on thirty day canoeing/ backpacking trips. For each course, one week was spent backpacking in Southern Illinois and three weeks paddling in the Quetico of Canada. Assisted students on ropes course and ZIP line. Taught students rockclimbing and caving. Met with parents or probation officers after course to decide placement for the student.

Counselor and Programme Coordinator for Camp Vacamas, W. Milford, New Jersey. 1990.

• Led youth-at-risk- students (co-ed, ages 9-17) on week long bicycling and backpacking trips through areas in upstate New York. Head logistician which included arrangements of travel, equipment, navigation, safety, and food.

Earth Science School Teacher, Montauk Jr. High, Brooklyn, New York. 1990.

• Taught earth science to junior high school students grades 6-8 (special-ed included).

Student. Wilderness Education Association. 1989.

Backpacked through the Adirondack High Peaks for 30 days. Snowshoed and cross country skied through the High Peaks for 15 days; built lots of igloos). Received Instructor Certification.

Student. Voyageur Outward Bound. Big Bend National Park, Texas. 1989.

• 22 day multi-element canoeing/climbing/backpacking course.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Winter camping & dogsledding

February, 2000, 1997 & 1996. Outward Bound Staff Invitational dogsledding. Mushed dogs and cross-country skied for one week in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. On the 1996 trip the warmest it temperature was -30 degrees, the coldest was -74 degrees. I never was warm, but I had a great time!

Backpacking

Grand Canyon National Park. 7 day trip on the Arch Route trail.. We did this route backwards!! (April 1994)

Overland Trek, Tasmania Australia. On this beautiful 6 day trip we encountered wombats, wallabys, joeys, and snow! (Oct. 1993)

Big Bend National Park.

• 8 day trip on the Old Mine Trail & Telephone Canyon Trail (Dec. 1996).
• 15 day trip starting at the Basin, down Juniper Canyon to Glenn Spring to Solis Over the Cross Canyon Trail and back to Solis, up Elephant Tusk, to the corral and back out through the Chisos (I like the mexican cows)(Jan. 1992)
• 6 day trip through Mesa Verde and surrounding areas (watch out for those wild mules!!!) (Dec. 1994)

Banff and Jasper National Park, Canda. 14 days of bliss, except for the lightening storm that began while walking on a trail that had become a river after it was washed out (July 1993)

Smoky Mountains, Tennessee.

• 10 day trip where the temperature dropped from 65 degrees to 20 degrees we woke up with 6 inches of snow and 2 unreliable MSR whisper lites (April 1991)
• 7 day trip without unusual events (May 1993).

Other places: Shenandoah National Forest, Virginia; Adirondacks, New York; Lake District and Wales, UK; Baxter State Park, Maine.

Other Activities

Caving; Hang Gliding; Paragliding: Rock Climbing

CERTIFICATIONS

Lifeguard; WFR; EMT; WEA Instructor Certification