Easter Seals Camp Kysoc is a resident and respite decentralized camping facility that provides children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities the opportunity to enjoy the wonders of the outdoors in a safe and fun environment.

Camp Kysoc's fund raising adventure program Alpenglow Adventures is the first Adventure Program in the world that will access America's and the world's most spectacular hiking trails, for the very first time - with people who cannot walk:

- To the Havasu Canyon, between Havasu and Mooney Falls in Arizona.

- To the Grand Canyon National Park and to the Phantom Ranch at the bottom.

- To the highest Uhuru summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in East Africa.

All of America's and the world's hiking trails have been inaccessible to anyone who was wheelchair dependant until now. With the use of the Kili-Kart, and the Trail Rider, we will be able offer teams of volunteers the ability to push and pull people who cannot walk to America's and to the world's greatest and most scenic hiking destination objectives by using the Kili-kart and the Trailrider, the only two devices in the world that are Human powered transport systems that must be pushed and pulled by teammates. 

As well, all revenue net income above expenses will go to support the children and adults with physical disabilities who attend Camp Kysoc and also support children and adults from a five state area to attend a six-day special needs session during the summertime. 

Hikers are encouraged to join us on our Havasupai Campground trip located between Havasu and Mooney Falls in the Grand Canyon and to the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park to the Phantom Ranch during a six-day hiking trip during spring break, 2009.  College students will receive academic credit. Special trips can be arranged from various college campuses from Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, etc.

Havasu and Grand Canyon National Park Trip: March 14th - March 22nd, 2009 & March 29-April 3, 2009, or your Spring Break time. Hiking trips can be arranged from various college campuses. Cost $795 if a sponsor for a camper to attend Camp Kysoc from a five state area, or $1,495 that sponsors one camper to attend Camp Kysoc from anywhere in a five state area surrounding Kentucky. Includes transportation RT from Kentucky, (or from a surrounding state) all food, four days camping permits, three nights lodging, horse packing of 30 lbs. RT of personal gear 10 miles to the Havasupai Campground, hiking leadership, etc. This is the only six-day trip offered in America that hikes to both the Havasu Campground and to the Colorado River along side the Havasu Creek as well as the descent to the bottom and back out of the Grand Canyon National Park via the South Kaibab Trail and back out the Bright Angel Trail. Over 60 miles of hiking and over 2 miles of descent and two miles of ascent in 5 days.

13 Day Trip- (Six-Day) Mount Kilimanjaro Ascent and (Seven-Day) Game Safari: Cost $5,795.  Includes all Park entry fees and all tips. Does not include airfare, drinks, personal expenses.

[$2,200 of each person's land cost would go to support three children or adults from a five state area to attend a special needs session during the summertime at Easter Seals Camp Kysoc.  $2,200 can be written off as a charitable donation and the remaining fee is at cost to operate the trip.]

Price includes 6 -day Mount Kilimanjaro ascent and 7-day Game Safari. Includes being picked up from the Mount Kilimanjaro International Airport, all transfers, All Park entry fees, two nights lodging at the Springland Hotel, six-day hike to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro using the Marungu Route, all food, mountain guides, assistant mountain guides, porters, cooks, 2 porters per each person, 30 lbs. of each person's gear carried by porters to the 15,520 foot Kibo Hut, all tips, Jim Ebert accompanying you to the summit, (Jim has guided over 250 people to the summit since 1967) etc. 

Seven -day game safari includes: All Park entry fees, all tips, English speaking drives, 4 x 4 Safari vehicles with removeable roofs, full board lodging including all meals on safari, full day game drives, staying in the top rated Serena Lodges while in the Serengeti National Park (2 nights), Ngorongoro Crater Game Preserve (2-nights) with full day game drive on the bottom of the crater, Tarangire National Park (1-night) and Lake Manyara National Park (1-night). The Trip Dates:

September 20-October 2, 2009

October 4-16, 2009

October 18-30, 2009

September 5-17, 2010 (Using the Kili-kart and Trailrider)

September 19-October 1, 2010

October 3-15, October 17-29, 2010

December 26-January 7, 2011 (Using the Trailrider & Kili-kart).

We believe that these trips will be the first in history to descend to these 2 spectacular locations in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona during one six-day trip that will support children and adults with disabilities to attend Easter Seals Camp Kysoc from a five State area during the summertime, and the first to take those who cannot walk to the bottom of these two spectacular areas, as well as being the first to offer to anyone who cannot walk, who is in good helath, the ascent to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Cost $5,595.

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