Alex Duane

Alex Duane is from Marion, Massachusetts, and is a Fine Arts and Environmental Studies major with an Outdoor Studies minor at St Lawrence University. He is leading our new North Country Adventure program for 6th graders in 2010. He works as Outdoor Program Guide where he leads backpacking, rock climbing and ice climbing trips throughout the school year. At St. Lawrence, Alex is an active member of the Environmental Action Organization, and is currently fostering a bike-share program on campus. He lives in the Greenhouse, a theme cottage where residents eat local organic food through CSA shares with farmers nearby and develop programs that educate the campus and community about environmental issues. Last fall, Alex spent four months in the Adirondack wilderness with eleven other students on St. Lawrence's Adirondack Semester program. Students on Adirondack Semester study the natural history, ecology, culture, and land-use of the Adirondacks and devolop their own environmental philosophy while immersed in nature. He is WFR certified and participated in St. Lawrence's Guide Training progam last year. Alex's family recently moved to Burlington, Vermont. Alex enjoys building things, cycling, skateboarding, and sailing. He writes, "I was drawn to lead for Overland because I believe that establishing a love for adventure and wilderness is essential for realizing a sustainable future."

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Overland Programs offers more than 40 different trips including New England summer camps and hiking adventures for tweens (5th graders and 6th graders), hiking trips for teens, teen bike trips in Europe and America, and teen summer service programs. Whether you're looking for a language immersion program, summer programs abroad or service programs abroad, summer writing programs, environmental studies programs, teen adventure travel trips, a field studies program, or even a gap year semester in Spain, you're sure to find a program here which will create lasting memories, capture the imagination, and strengthen physical, emotional and social skills. Overland is not simply a summer or semester-long experience—it's a life experience with value and resonance that extends far beyond the boundaries of a young person's time with us.

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Overland leaders are students and recent alumni from top colleges and universities, including many schools in the Ivy League and NESCAC as well as other elite schools across the country. Overland leaders are campus leaders, varsity athletes, sports captains, peer counselors, outdoor guides, and honors students. All leaders are First Aid, CPR, and lifeguard certified.

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Overland Programs, also known as Overland Summers and even as Overland Adventures, is proud to have ACA accredited summer programs, teen summer camps, teen summer adventures, teen travel, teen summer programs, teenage camps, teen adventure programs, teen adventure trips, summer camp programs, summer programs abroad, language immersion courses abroad, teen bike trips, teen bicycle tours, teen summer service programs and New England camps which are held to the highest safety standards. Overland is not a teen tour or a summer camp, our trips and programs are carefully crafted and designed to challenge our students, who are always in small groups with superlative leadership.