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The Fraser-Cascade Mountain School is an outdoor experience program run by School District 78 (Fraser-Cascade) in British Columbia, Canada. We provide all season out door excursions to students from grades 6 to 12 in Boston Bar Elementary Secondary, Hope Secondary, C.E. Barry Intermediate, Silver Creek Elementary, Kent Elementary, Agassiz Elementary Secondary and Harrison Elementary Schools. We have been providing quality, professional outdoor experiences to adolescents for more than 20 years.

We are grateful to the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission and to the Hope Mountain Centre for Outdoor Learning for significant and ongoing financial support over the years – our program would not exist without them. Mountain Equipment Co-op has generously provided support as well.

Our backyard is the Skagit Valley, Manning Provincial Park, the Fraser Canyon, Harrison Lake and the amazing Coquihalla. From the Coast Mountain to the Cascades, from Fraser Canyon to the US border at Hozomeen, we hike, camp, climb, snowshoe, explore and learn. Our summer courses are popular and well attended..

During the 2009-2010 school year Fraser-Cascade students camped overnight at Ross Lake and hiked the complete Skagit River Trail from Sumallo Grove in Manning Park to 26 Mile Bridge in the Skagit Valley, went snowshoeing at Falls Lake and Ottomite Mountain in the Coquihalla, hiked the Coquihalla Needle Ridge Trail and climbed to the top of Flatiron Peak, winter camped at Despair Pass, hiked the Three Falls Trail in Manning, climbed Blackwall Peak and to the peak of Mount Frosty (the highest mountain in Manning Park), completed a three day traverse of the Hozomeen Ridge on the US border, and climbed to the top of the Hudson's Bay 1848 Trail in the Fraser Canyon.

881 students and 180 adults spent a full day with the Mountain School during the 2009-2010 school year. Check out our schedule for the Fall of 2010 and please, join us on an excursion.

Our young people - actively engaged in the outdoors!