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A Space for Transformation: The Story Behind La Vida’s New Barn
by Chris Peters | December 9, 2025 | Adirondack Expeditions, Base Camp, Featured, Staff Stories | 0 Comments
Snowshoeing After Winter Storm Juno
Feb 2, 2015 | Adventure Pursuits
By Abby Foster It is often a common fact that when a snowstorm hits, we stay cooped up inside, bundled under our blankets, sipping on hot tea or cocoa. However, there are a select few who decide to bare the cold, and go out to explore what the snowstorms have left for...
Rock Gym Re-Route
Jan 29, 2015 | Rock Gym
As the activities at our outdoor challenge course close down for the winter, we gear up for a season of events in our indoor Rock Gym. In preparation, we have been doing some cleaning and re-routing of the climbs. La Vida staff members Dan Pfistner and Erika Gorgeny...
Staff Highlight on Joel Cox “Sharing the Dream”
Jan 29, 2015 | Staff Stories
Sharing the Dream By Joel Cox Over break I had the opportunity to return back to my motherland of Romania. Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is where my parents serve as missionaries and where my sister is finishing up high school. Coming home after having been gone...
La Vida- A Very Brief Early History
Jan 21, 2015 | Staff Stories
Photo Above From Left to Right: Rich Obenschain, Steve Oliver, Jim Kielsmeier By Rich Obenschain La Vida began in 1970 as a follow-up, discipleship program for Young Life’s newly acquired Saranac Village in the Adirondacks near Lake Placid, NY. There were many...
Discovery Weekend in New Hampshire
Dec 2, 2014 | Discovery
A few weeks ago, my Discovery class and I traveled up to New Hampshire for our weekend outing. The first day we drove to Mt. Major and made the cold (and at times snowy) trek up the mountain. A beautiful view of Lake Winnipesauke awaited us at the top. The weekend was...
Hike Up Mt. Monadnock
Nov 25, 2014 | Adventure Pursuits
Thoughts From Damaris Gibaldi, 2014-2015 LEAP Intern: I had the privilege of planning Gordon's 2014 student hike up Mount Monadnock as a part of my internship with the La Vida office. As a "LEAP" intern (Leadership Experience in Adventure Programming), I know how...