Member Portal

Welcome to the Resources page for our active members! Here, you'll find information including our schedule, sign-ups, gear lists, and tuition details to ensure you have everything you need for a successful experience. Stay informed by checking back regularly for updates and new resources. Thank you for being an active part of our organization.

Schedule and Sign ups

CORE is excited to release the 2025 Spring Schedule! Please note, our schedule is a dynamic document that may change with inclement weather, so keep an eye out weekly newsletters. To guarantee your student secures a spot and doesn’t miss out on the fun, please sign up for trips using Sign Up Genius!

Tuition

Tuition is paid monthly from September to May. Each month, your tuition provides access to a range of valuable experiences and resources, including:

Four weekly educational meetings focusing on one of three topics: Enviornmental education, community service, or technical recreation skills.
One to three thoughtfully planned weekend adventures.
Comprehensive program-wide insurance.
Expert instruction and guidance from certified instructors.
A strong sense of community and interpersonal growth.

CORE is dedicated to ensuring the program is accessible and affordable for all families. Scholarships are available for students. For more details on program pricing and financal aid, please get in touch!

Gear Guide

Students receive guidance during weekly meetings on what and how to pack all necessary equipment. These lists and tips below are to help parents assist students. If there is an item on the list you do not have, do not worry! Let us know. We can collaborate to find solutions, including offering advice on affordable options or connecting with members who are willing to share or loan personal items. The lists below serve as general packing guides for typical meetings, day hikes, or camping trips. Additional items will be required for climbing, boating, or caving trips. Specific packing lists for each trip will be sent out prior to the, so please check your email regularly.

Our courses are characterized by unpredictable weather. Having the proper clothing is crucial. You can find these items at stores like REI, Walmart, Target, TJ Max, or Amazon. There are also wonderful used retailers available!

It is important that all your clothing be comfortable, quick-drying and warm. Fabrics such as polyester, polypropylene, fleece, acrylic, rayon and wool are recommended as they retain much of their warm qualities when wet. Denim and cotton are useless as insulators once they get wet. Please do not bring cotton unless specified.

Our clothing list reflects the layering principle. Several layers of light clothing keep you warm and can be adjusted to changes in both weather and activity. For example, wearing a polypropylene undershirt, a fleece jacket and a wind shell/raincoat allows you to adapt to changing conditions better than a ski jacket.

Students learn responsibility by planning and cooking their own meals. The following are a list of meal ideas that we have collected over many years on the trail:

Breakfast

Students are welcome to cook, but encouraged to stick to "hot water" meals or ready made breakfasts for speed.

Examples: Oatmeal, Grits, granola, cream of wheat, bagels

Lunch

We do not cook during lunch so please bring lunch food that is pre-prepared. Packing at least one ‘vehicle’ and one ‘passenger’ for each lunch should be filling!

Vehicles: Tortillas, Pita Bread, Bagels, Crackers, Hard Rolls

Passengers: Peanut Butter & Jelly, Cream Cheese & Salsa, Hummus, Cheese & Mustard, Tuna, Salami & pepperoni

Dinner

There are many ideas out there for creating healthy, good tasting dinners. The most important consideration is ensuring your dinner is providing sufficient calories. What you eat for dinner is what keeps you warm at night and will also determine the quality of energy you have the next day. Think "boiling water meals

Examples: Mac & Cheese, ramen, minute rice, Knor sides, Mountain House

You can easily add a protein to any of them (chicken, tuna) plus they’re simple to prepare and clean up is easy too.

Snacks

We recommend students pack two snacks per day and that covers their energy output. If they can handle monitoring their snacks, then you can put all the trail mix in one bag and they know they must get however many snacks out of it. If this sounds to challenging for your child we suggest making up individual bags of snacks to help them self monitor.

Examples: Granola, Cliff, Lara Bars, Trail Mix, String Cheese, Carrots, Fruit, Almonds, sunflower seeds, etc.

Meetings

For meetings students will primarily be outdoors. Bringing these items will ensure students can participate safely and comfortably:

-Water Bottle

-Headlamp

-Warm Layers

-Sturdy shoes

CORE provided Group Gear for all trips

-First Aid Kit

-Group Tarp

-Satellite Phone

Day Trips
To be prepared for any adventure it is a good rule of thumb to have the following:
-Backpack -- big enough for all your Gear!

-Backpack liner and/or cover (Contractor trash bag)

-Baselayer Top

-Baselayer Bottom

-Non Cotton Pants and/or shorts

-Fleece Jacket

-Puffy Jacket

-Rain Jacket

-Rain Pants

-Hiking Boots

-Wool socks

-Beanie

-Gloves

-2-4 Liters of water capacity

-Headlamp and extra batteries

-Toilet Paper and Hand Sanitizer

-Lunch and snacks for the day

Overnight Trips

For overnight trips you will need all the items from the “Day trips” list plus the following:

-Sleeping Bag

-Sleeping Pad

-Tent or Tarp and ground cloth

-Stove

-Fuel

-Pot/pan

-Utensil(s)

-Hygiene products

-Extra wool socks

-Extra underwear

-Book and/or Journal

-Food for the appropriate number of days in stuff sack