by Chris Peters | Dec 9, 2025 | Adirondack Expeditions, Base Camp, Featured, Staff Stories
La Vida: We’re talking with Nate Hausman, former director of Outdoor Education at La Vida, and George Abetti, founder and CEO of Geo Barns. My first question for you is what was the importance of this project for you? Nate Hausman: The barn is a particular...
by La Vida | Oct 25, 2023 | Adirondack Expeditions, Base Camp, College Expeditions
When The La Vida Center and Gordon College acquired our Adirondack property in 1995, a myriad of possibilities opened up for not only our organization but for the participants that joined us every summer. At the time we purchased the site, our Adirondack Expeditions...
by La Vida | May 26, 2020 | Base Camp, Staff Stories
This article was originally written by Eileen Wilder for the very first printed newsletter published by La Vida in 1991. The most powerful tool of the La Vida Program is undeniably God’s Creation. There is nothing that could be built, done or said that could conjure...
by Amber.Hausman | Nov 8, 2019 | Adirondack Expeditions, Base Camp, College Expeditions, Staff Stories
By Amber Hausman La Vida and Gary Valentine go way back. Nate first met Gary in the early 2000’s through a McMaster Road connection. Gary’s wife, Ruth, grew up less than a half a mile from the La Vida Base Camp property and her parents Lloyd and Lulu...
by Amber.Hausman | Aug 1, 2019 | Base Camp, Staff Stories
By Taylor Bradford ’19 The smell of bacon crept out of the main cabin, ran across the field, and awaited me at the front steps of the women’s cabin. As I followed the aroma, I heard laughter, the clanging of pots and pans, and the sizzling of salt-cured pork....
by Amber.Hausman | Nov 22, 2017 | Base Camp
By: Blake Denman ’18, La Vida Intern Quad break this year included a trip up to La Vida’s Base Camp in the Adirondacks. A group of students, staff and La Vida alumni headed to Lake Clear, NY to get the property ready for the coming winter. The first day, after...
