telos leadership ventures: Enchanted Valley in Olympic Park Enchanted Valley, Olympic Park, WA August 25-29, 2018 TRIP OVERVIEW Style: Backpacking Difficulty: Level 3 Solitude: Level 3 Origin: Olympia, WA* Length: 4 days of hiking, 1 day of community building and professional development in Olympia Washington Distance: 20mi / 32km Group Size: Maximum of 11 including facilitators and country guide(s) While on the trip, themes addressed Introduction during coaching sessions are further and more deeply explored. Your Leaders know that change venture will include: simultaneously represents • exploring self-leadership opportunities and change takes • crafting your personal charter time and consistent pressure. • leveraging group dynamics • incorporating mindfulness as a telos leadership ventures are a tactical advantage six-month transformational • identifying and challenging your experience that includes: self-imposed limitations • both individual reflection • using systems thinking as a and growth and strategic advantage your telos leadership development tools • igniting transformational change venture is delivered in • at least 4 one-on-one As you leave the magical storybook partnership with Wildland personal coaching surroundings of Enchanted Valley, Trekking, Trip Advisor's #1 sessions to rated hiking and your telos leadership venture will shift align with the from experience to action. Through backpacking company changes you want re-entry sessions, guided self- to make in your life reflection and additional personal develop strategy coaching sessions, telos is available development for to assist you in implementing what making those you discovered in Washington. changes • physical and emotional Sustainable change rarely occurs in a support before and after single moment, in a single day, or you take your first steps in even in a single experience, yet the the Enchanted Valley deliberate immersion of oneself into a telos leadership venture links them all together for your benefit. Key moments occurring across months of carefully crafted programming create a unique developmentexperience that achieves the hard-to-reach shifts in our perspective, our outlook, our convictions, and our behavior. Overview On this world class backpacking trip we hike to a remote valley surrounded by mile high cliffs, waterfalls, and glaciers in the wilderness of Olympic National Park. Known to locals as "The Valley of 10,000 Waterfalls," Enchanted Valley is home to a historic Swiss-style chalet that dates back to the 1930's, as well as the wild Quinault River, Chimney Peak, Quinault Rainforest and Anderson Glacier. This four day hike to Enchanted Valley is the Olympics at their best-crossing creeks and rivers, navigating through mossy forests and breaking into stunning, wide open meadows. And despite penetrating deep into the heart of the Olympics, the elevation change on this trip is moderate- the only heart- pounding on this trail will be from the views. Day 1 Day 2 Shuttle to the Trailhead: 2.5-hours Hiking Mileage: 6.5 miles Day 4 Elevation Gain: 700 feet Hiking Mileage: 6.5 miles Hiking Mileage: 6.5 miles Elevation Loss: 600 feet Elevation Gain: 600 feet Day two follows the Quinault river This multi-day Olympic National Park further up into the mountains toward Shuttle to Olympia: 2.5 -hours hiking trip begins with pick up at its headwaters, intermittently climbing your hotel in Olympia. After a 2.5- and crossing small side creeks. We’ll Our final day will take us hour scenic drive, our first day is hike through maple forests, past giant back to the trailhead the way spent hiking along the majestic firs and spruces, and find many more we came. We’ll drive past Quinault River, climbing steadily past small waterfalls along the way. Shortly scenic Lake Quinault on the small waterfalls and moss-laden before today's ending destination, way out, and then bid farewell trees. Deep in the heart of the we’ll cross a dramatic bridge high to the rainforest and to Quinault Rainforest, we'll keep our above the Quinault River, and then the Olympic National Park as we eyes out for unique flora and fauna forest will open up into the stunning head back towards Seattle, as elk and other wildlife are common vistas of Enchanted Valley. We’ll camp dreaming already of our next here, as well as an abundance of here, in an open meadow with views adventure. lush vegetation and giant trees. We’ll of mountains, glaciers, and rivers. spend the first night at O’Neil Creek, Black bear are common in this area, and finish off the day with a hearty and if we’re lucky we’ll see one dinner served up deep in the foraging near by. Salmon, bald eagles, Trip itinerary note: All trips rainforest. deer, otters, beavers, and more inhabit this bountiful area as well. are subject to itinerary changes based on a variety Day 3 of circumstances, including, Hiking Mileage: 6.5 miles but not limited to permit Elevation Loss: 700 feet availability, extreme weather, Our third day will give us plenty of and forest fires. The price time to explore Enchanted Valley. and duration of a trip will We’ll visit the historic ruins of the never change once you have riverside chalet (that due to erosion registered. Payments are not are now undercut, and precariously hanging out over the Quinault river), refundable based on itinerary snap amazing photos of towering changes, only on peaks and glaciers, and look for cancellations. blueberries and other treats in the meadows and forests near our camp. Eventually we'll pack up and head back down the trail. We’ll make our way back towards O’Neill Creek, keeping eyes open for the views and wildlife that were behind us on the way in. Payment Policy Cancellation Transfer Policy Policy If you transfer from one trip to Reserve your spot: another: the telos institute reserves the right to A payment of $1500 is • 30 or more days prior to the cancel any trip because of inadequate necessary to confirm your spot trip start date, there will be a registration or other causes that make it $25 processing fee. by May 15, 2018 infeasible for the scheduling of the trip. • Less than 29 days prior to If this is the case, we will inform you at the trip start date, regular least 30 days prior to departure and a Balance: cancellation and refund full refund of the advertised trip cost will Your balance is due by July 15, policies will apply. 2018 be given, including the deposit. Neither the telos institute nor The Wildland Trekking Company are responsible for Trip Insurance Remittance additional expenses incurred by For your protection, we strongly Please make all checks preparing for the trip (for example: non- recommend the purchase of trip payable to: refundable advance purchase air insurance. It will protect you telos tickets, clothing, equipment, visa fees, against financial loss in the event 9905 Auburn Rd. medical expenses, etc.). If you cancel of trip cancellation or interruption, medical expenses, Chardon, OH 44024 or leave a trip for any reason: travel delay, emergency • 60 or more days prior to the trip start evacuation or other Trip Cost: $12,675 date, we will grant you a full refund, circumstances. Medical coverage less a $500 administrative fee. Trip Fees Include: 4 coaching secured with your policy will also • Between 59 and 30 days prior to the sessions; on-line leadership satisfy our requirement for health assessment and individual trip start date, we will retain 25 insurance. report; pre-trip exercises and percent of the trip cost. activities to help you prepare for • Between 29 and 15 days prior to the your telos leadership venture; trip start date, we will retain 75 community building activities both before and during the trip; percent of the trip cost. personal and professional • Less than 15 days prior to the trip development tools, content, and start date, or once the trip has begun, resources before, during and there will be no refund. after the trip. .