Sign up now! For February 23rd & March 2nd

Send your kids out for a fun, action packed afternoon in nature! We have room for 5 kids to go adventuring on a Sunday afternoon. We will meet at our home (103 Cruiser, Irvine,) have a quick powwow and head out on foot. We will navigate to local trails & parks where the kids will get to learn outdoor skills that inspire confidence and self-sufficiency. They will get to explore, play and make up games. After a fun filled afternoon, we will head back to 103 Cruiser for pickup at 4:30p.

Beacon Park School District

The PACK Kids is primarily being offered to Beacon Park School students in 2nd-5th grades, but we are open to taking other kids around that age from the surrounding districts as well. Please reach out with any questions.

Outdoors and UNPLUGGED!

The kids will learn essential bushcraft skills, such as knot tying, reading map and compass, plant identification and much more.

They will also learn traditional life skills, such as team work, planning, creative problem solving, time management, and being kind to fellow pack members and classmates. We encourage being outside whenever possible and being stewards to the parks and environments around us. We will learn to clean up trash when we see it and live by the classic camping adage of, “Leave it better than you found it.”

An outdoor enthusiast dad

This idea comes from my wife’s and my commitment to spend as much quality time with our children as they grow, learn, and become young adults. I have been a park ranger in Oregon, a mountaineer, a climber, and an all around outdoorsman for most of my life. For the past 25 years I have also been in technology and have worked for major enterprises as well as many startups and have built digital infrastructure and products from the ground up. Now I’m looking to unplug more, get back to the great outdoors and enjoy the non-digital space all around us. This will allow me to spend more time with my children and to help them and other children learn new skills to become more powerful, adventurous, creative, and kind.

Randy Osborn

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I grew up in small towns in Oregon and after graduating high school, I became a park ranger in Winema National Forest. I loved being in the forest and I also had creative and technological ambitions, so I jumped into the first “dot com craze” in the late 90’s and never looked back. My endeavors in the digital space have afforded me the opportunity to travel, explore, and go on adventures in many places of the world, yet I have always maintained a deep connection with being outside and away from technology. Now, while I still do consulting in the digital space, I have found a great way to get out-and-about with my own children, as well as their friends and classmates to share and learn these real life skills.

The Osborns

My wife and I moved to the Beacon Park area from Venice Beach (Los Angeles) at the end of the 2024 school year. Our children, Mason (girl - 7) and Dillon (boy - 9) are attending Beacon Park School as 2nd and 3rd graders for the 2024-2025 school year. We regularly go out on camping and hiking trips and enjoy exploring new and unknown locations as much as possible. It's through these adventures that we thought this would be a wonderful program for others as well.