High Trails Outdoor Education Center is "Unique 2 Colorado"

We are so proud of the team at our High Trails Outdoor Education Center. It is the 50th season of outdoor education at Sanborn Western Camps and the Colorado Outdoor Education Center, and Denver’s Kevin Torres and Colorado’s Own Channel 2 does a great job showcasing the importance of and uniqueness of our very own role playing style of outdoor education. To learn more about High Trails Outdoor Education Center at Sanborn Western Camps, please visit: www.htoec.org.

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Ariella Rogge
About Ariella Rogge

Ariella started her career at Sanborn when she was twelve. After five years of camper and five years of Sanborn staff experience, she continued her work with kids in the high school classroom. Ariella and her family returned to Sanborn in 2001 to take on the Program Director role which she held til 2012. She and Elizabeth Marable became co-directors of High Trails in 2013 and then Ariella became the High Trails Director in 2020. In the fall of 2022 she became the Director of Sanborn Western Camps, overseeing the director teams of both Big Spring and High Trails. She lists mountain golf, Gymkhana, climbing mountains and making Pad Thai in the backcountry as some of her favorite activities at camp. Ariella received a B.A. in English from Colorado College and is a certified secondary English educator,an ACCT Level 2 Ropes Course Technician, an ARC lifeguard and NREMT and WEMT. She lives in Florissant in the summer and in Green Mountain Falls during the school year so she can stay involved with the busy lives of her husband, Matt, and two teenage sons, Lairden and Karsten.