About COR Expeditions

COR was founded in 2016 out of the desire of its founders to share transformational encounters with Christ with individuals from around the country through backcountry experiences and outdoor education. Each of the founding team members had experienced deep personal conversion through their time spent in creation and were hungry to invite others into similar encounters with Christ.

COR was also born out of a desire to facilitate these spiritual encounters through professionally instructed outdoor activities and deep wilderness experiences. The spiritual passion of the team, paired with the desire for excellence and professionalism in the backcountry, is fundamentally at the service of the Church's mission to “preach the Gospel to all nations” and strives to help all those who come on a COR course, whether seminarians, religious, Catholics, converts, Christians, or secular, to come to know Christ as the source of their being and identity.

Adventure

COR offers wilderness based expeditions year round throughout the US and internationally. Most operations are based in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah but COR holds permitting throughout the mountain and desert west on state and federal lands. We offer courses which include backpacking, rock climbing, white water boating, sea kayaking, backcountry skiing, mountaineering, ice climbing, fishing, horseback riding, and more.

The Four Pillars

Every participant on a COR trip is invited to reflect on what are known as COR’s ‘four pillars,’ or underlying principles of ministry: wonder, community, leadership, and identity. These pillars are both uniquely experienced in the wilderness and widely under attack throughout today’s culture; by intentional reflection on each of them and the role they play in our lives, we hope to invite participants into a fundamental renewal of heart and outlook.