Part 1: Skills Workshop + Q&A
Saturday, April 25, 11 AM—1PM
Part 2: One-night Backpacking Trip
Saturday, May 2–3 in Angeles National Forest
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 25
Sliding scale: $25-50, please email [email protected] if payment is barrier
Join us for this introductory backpacking workshop led by artist, teacher, and outdoor guide, Christina Mesiti! Beginners encouraged. Part 1 of this workshop is meant to offer basic backpacking skills. Please note that Part 2, which is the overnight trip, is currently full, but Christina is open to taking participants who have completed Part 1 on a different overnight trip, to be discussed at the skills workshop.
Part 1: Skills Workshop + Q&A
Saturday, April 25, 11 AM—1PM
For this workshop, we will meet at FCCW to cover the nuts and bolts of being able to walk and sleep outside: protecting our bodies, shelter, cooking, water treatment, first aid, trip planning, wildlife encounters. We will also discuss gear and how to obtain the basic necessities through rentals and used gear swaps in order to get folks outside more easily, sidestepping the siren song of recreational capitalism as much as possible. You MUST attend Part 1 to participate in Part 2.
Part 2: One-night Backpacking Trip
Saturday, May 1–2 in Angeles National Forest
Meet @ FCCW at 9AM
Together we will embark on an easy overnight backpacking trip to Cooper Canyon Falls in the Angeles National Forest. This is an opportunity to see how all the skills fit together while never being more than 2.5 miles from the car. Explore sleeping outside in a group of like-minded beginners. Camp! Cook! Filter water! Tell stories around the campfire! Be away from your phone! Practice skills with cool, new friends!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christina Mesiti is an artist, teacher, and guide living full time within public land throughout the western US. She uses sculpture and photography to cultivate a friendly relationship with change and her own mortality. Before turning feral and moving into her self-converted short bus, she taught at Deep Springs College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Pepperdine University. She has attended residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation, Township 10, Art Farm, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2021, she co-founded the Emplacement Society, a backcountry residency collective and publishing platform that experiments with collective, somatic knowledge creation at the intersection of art and the environment.