Cascade Lake Camp & Psilocybin Integration
Deepen Your Journey and Expand Your Sense Of Self!
Spend time in the peace and beauty on an alpine lake deep in the Pacific Northwest forest after your psilocybin journey!
Whether you are processing grief, exploring an expanded sense of self-awareness, you want to explore expansive habits and patterns with your freshly rebooted neural network, connect with a grounded community, or just simply fall in love with the world again with fresh eyes, this is the ideal place for your integration!
*Tents, sleeping bags & pads, meals, snacks, coffee, guides, yoga, paddleboards & kayaks, shuttle and more included!
Optional: massage (during stay) & rafting on the way back!
Camp Pricing (Psilocybin Services Additional Charge)
3 Days, 2 nights: $1480
Stay with our awesome licensed psilocybin facilitators, and have a profound integration experience!
Let Us Guide You!
Spending time in the natural world can be difficult to set up, especially after a mushroom journey. Setting a good container for a deep experience can be even trickier. Let us take care of it all for you. Here’s what to expect:
You have your own spot, with some space between sites, so you can sink into the rhythm of natural world. You can also join the group space if you’re feeling more social.
The beauty of this place helps you to appreciate being here, and the land alone allows for intense feelings of presence and awe. The longer you spend here, the more the vibe of this incredible place flows through you.
Paddle around the lake at your will, or you can do yoga with the group! We accommodate beginners to both if you’re willing to try.
Yoga on a paddle board may seem like a lot for a beginner, but there’s a reason we do it. Yoga in nature opens your body up, releases your mind and brings you more quickly into a state of presence and peace. It accelerates exactly what we aim to do here. But there typically aren’t flat surfaces for yoga mats out here.
Our sups are soft, and are very stable. You can do yoga on the land if you are more comfortable as well, but it’s a bit different.
We like to work with you personally, and tailor the experience to what you’re looking for, as well as your style and choice. But we have a general outline of things
Intention Sharing: We hold a group space every day where people can be seen and heard if they want to join. We encourage people to offer a bit of their intention or their journey during your introductory circle. We will have a variety of circles, though these will vary a bit with the facilitator’s approach.
Practices: We offer a handful of practices to the group, but we also individualize our recommendations for the people we’re working with. From there, you can choose what feels best for you relative to where you’re at and what you’re hoping to get out of it. Eric has a Master’s in Ecopsychology and is always happy to offer you suggestions to explore a different angle on things.
If you have any questions about this, please ask.
Our guides are licensed psilocybin facilitators, and this is considered part of your integration. You can book with them for your psilocybin session, and have them be there with you for your journey as well so you can both carry some pieces from it to your time in the natural world.
Plus we have all kinds of practices, gear, and do all of the work so you can soak up the valuable insights from your journey while they are still fresh.
You have the (highly recommended) option of rafting the White Salmon on your way out. The river bed was formed by an ancient lava tube. It is both a beautiful and exciting class III run. Moving through the water in this way after a period of stillness offers a new perspective on it.
The movie “DamNation” Gives good insight into the history of dams and rivers, and Eric is happy to help you recognize why rivers are such and important and overlooked aspect of the environmental movement.
Details
To help you get to and from camp, we have a few ways
1. We provide free transportation from Hood River Transit Center, where you can take an express bus to Portland’s Gateway Center (near PDX airport). Tickets for that transit are $10. On the way, you can see Multnomah Falls if you catch an earlier bus. This is our favorite option since it is both the most environmentally friendly and saves us time and energy driving back and forth to Portland.
2. Drive yourself all the way to camp. It is nearly a 2 hour drive from Portland. Directions and exact location given the morning of the experience. You will need a car with a bit higher ground clearance, as the road is gravel and can get rutted out.
3. We provide full shuttle service from Portland for a charge of $80 first person in your party, $60 each additional person.
4. If you purchase this experience through our sister site Mushroomeric (Mushroomeric.com) that 5 day package includes your stay and psilocybin facilitation in Portland, as well as transportation.
Food- This isn’t your typical outdoor grub! We bring fresh food, quality kitchen gear, and prepare your meals deliciously. We are based in the fertile Pacific Northwest, where the ingredients are insanely good. Our coffee game is on point as well! Just tell us your diet preference
We offer vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options for free. Eating light and more ecologically sustainably takes the medicine and nature connection experience to another level.
If you would like meat options, it is an additional charge for increased, cost, separate storage, cleaning, and pest control (the hornets come for the meat). While we understand people love their meat, we appreciate your understanding of the difficulty involved in storing, preparing and cleaning required of it.
We provide the group gear, including the kitchen, a small shower, and boats/ SUPs.
tents, sleeping bags and pads, hammocks, tarps and more.
We also have emergency supplies, like first aid and trained guides, along with remote communication and tracking devices.
We handle all the gear and guiding for activities and in camp. You just need to bring your personal hygiene items and clothes. We’ll give you some pointers before you come out, but you probably have everything you need already.
2024 Cascade Lakes Dates
Journey Steps
Facilitators & Guides
Before earning his M.A. in Cultural & Psychological Studies with a certificate in Ecopsychology in 2013, Eric worked in mental health and education for over a decade. He knew how vital and overlooked nature connection was in the mental health world, so he opened Evolve Wild to facilitate people’s connection with wild nature. In 2023, the first year Oregon officially began offering legal psilocybin services, Eric completed his psilocybin facilitation training at InnerTrek.
Eric is thrilled to be able to use his decades-long background in guiding nature-based experiences, particularly rafting trips, to enhance the psilocybin journey and to help you explore deep connections with wild nature.
*Eric will be Available for Most Dates For This Experience This Summer
Leslie is a board-certified Family Medicine/Obstetrics physician and Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator. She pivoted her career to offer psychedelic-assisted therapy after working in primary care and obstetrics in the Salem, Oregon, community for over a decade.
As a primary care physician, she witnessed her patients struggle with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD and how the current medical system continued to fail as they encountered barriers to care and tried multiple medications without relief. While searching for a better option for her patients, she experienced how psychedelics helped to heal her own trauma and improve her mental health. She wanted to be able to offer this type of healing to her patients, as well.
Driven by her belief that everyone deserves that same level of healing in a way that integrates mind, body, and spirit, she completed the InnerTrek Psilocybin Facilitator Program in December 2023. She continues to be amazed by the parallels experienced in birth work and rebirth work through psychedelics. She believes that the path to healing is reconnecting to our own Inner Healer and beloved Mother Earth.
Follow Your Own Calling
Here at Evolve Wild, our experiences were designed to provide the set and setting so you can have a deeply personalized expeirence. You can do what you feel, as we provide a container for lots of personal space and choice. Here’s how:
You have your own site, with distance and trees between your neighbors.
You can chill out on your own or relax at the group (social) site, where there is always at least one guide, within reasonable hours anyway. Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, you get to decide how much you want to engage with other people!
How you engage is up to you!
We offer a lot of ways to engage with the experience, and some of it pushes people’s boundaries. Whether it’s yoga, rafting, paddle boarding, sharing your intentions for coming out, or checking in with the group about where you’re at, or some of our more personalized suggestions, you decide what you do and what you don’t do.
I (Eric) talk about lots of things on this site, but it’s to let you know where I’m coming from, and why I went to all the trouble to create Evolve Wild. But I don’t get preachy or judgmental.
If you’re looking for deeper conversation, have questions about some of the stuff I talk about on here, or just want to trip out, we’re happy to go there. And our guides will offer different ways to deepen into your journey. But it’s up to you to pick what we choose, if anything.
This is not a party / loud scene!
We aim to get away from modern-day distractions to allow the world around us to speak to us. But the natural world speaks a soft language, and is easily drowned out. We discourage heavy drinking, loud music, and motor sports. We ask that you respect others on the experience by refraining from such things as well.
Access to nature may be one of the biggest hidden privileges in our society today.
We welcome, and do our best, to offer our experiences to people of all skin colors, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, beliefs, languages, religions, SES, and political affiliations. Your experience is about you and your relationship with the world around you. We’ll do our best to hold others to those standards.
And always know that if you don’t feel respected you can talk with us about it, or disengage by leaving the social area and going to your own site (and, of course, talking with us later).
This is meant to be a small, but important, step along your larger journey. It’s not about what we think you should be doing, it’s about you doing what you feel as it arises, and allowing the experience to unfold.
Trip Details / FAQs
This Journey is beginner-friendly. You can choose your own level of participation for the hike, even skipping any hiking options altogether. You could also go on a variety of hike lengths.
The rafting is also beginner-friendly. You will have a life jacket, and clothes to keep you warm if you’d like. You can paddle, or even sit in the middle of the boat if you are worried.
There is no experience necessary for the psilocybin journey either. Your facilitator will work out a personalized plan and dosing with you.
We provide clean food to reduce issues you have with medicine or the energetic experience. This isn’t your typical outdoor eating, either. We bring fresh food and prepare it deliciously with a solid kitchen setup. We are based in the lush Pacific Northwest, where the ingredients are insanely fresh. Our coffee and tea game is on point, too.
We have the ability to accommodate most diets. Whether you’re a vegan, vegetarian, or prefer meat options, we’ve got you covered. We think everyone should be able to enjoy a delicious meal, regardless of their dietary preferences.
Most of our food is naturally gluten free food, as there’s just not much wheat in outdoor cooking.
Just let us know your preferences during booking and we’ll take care of the rest!
The accommodations for this trip is camping.
Portland (prior to the Cascade Lake portion) You can stay in Portland, ad do the medicine journey there. For more details on that package, check out our sister site Mushroomeric.com.
For the nights we camp, we provide tents, sleeping pads and group equipment. You will have to chose a sleeping bag option:
Sleeping Bags
Sleeping bags are personal items, as they are right up against people. Cleaning sleeping bags causes them to break down quickly, both structurally and insulation wise. But not everyone has one, so we have a few options:
1. Rent A Bag at $35 per person per trip. This covers cleaning and degradation of the sleeping bag.
2. Buy your own. This is our recommended option. Getting your own sleeping bag is a necessary step to you getting outdoors more often. We work with Next Adventure, a Portland based outdoor outfitter, to get you discounted bags. Please let us know in advance if you will be buying a bag.
3. Donate your bag- Don’t want to bring your sleeping bag back home? You can buy a bag and, after you are finished, donate it to local people having housing issues.
Transportation from Bend, Or. back to Bend is included in the price. Driving on the medicine day is prohibited, and shuttling vehicles for rafting is complicated, so you cannot drive yourself for this part of the experience.
If you would prefer to join us on the trip out from Portland, the cost is $80 for the 1st, $50 additional.
We use minivans and light trucks to move around, to make it environmentally friendly and to allow for more personal choice and flexibility.
We get a lot of questions about the toilets. Smith Rock, Bend and the medicine session will have flush toilets. The campgrounds have vault toilets (pictured above). And no, you won’t have to dig a hole.
Showers are available the first two nights. The third night, if you rent a cabin, you can take a shower. The fourth night, there is no shower, but there is a river.
We handle all the gear, guides, and facilitators for rafting and camp. You just need to bring your personal hygiene items and clothes, and to choose your sleeping bag option (see below). We’ll give you some pointers before you come out, but you probably already have everything else you need.
Sleeping Bags
Sleeping bags are personal items, as they are right up against people. Cleaning sleeping bags causes them to break down quickly, both structurally and insulation wise. But not everyone has one, so we have a few options:
1. Rent A Bag at $35 per person per trip. This covers cleaning and degradation of the sleeping bag.
2. Buy your own. This is our recommended option. Getting your own sleeping bag is a necessary step to you getting outdoors more often. We work with Next Adventure, a Portland based outdoor outfitter, to get you discounted bags. Please let us know in advance if you will be buying a bag.
3. Donate your bag– Don’t want to bring your sleeping bag back home? You can buy a bag and, after you are finished, donate it to local people having housing issues.
No. If you have wool or synthetic long underwear, that can help on colder days. We have splash tops and pants, and we have wet suits if need be. But towards the end of June through July, which is when we have most of our trips, it’s hot out and the water gets warm as well, so swim gear is usually fine.
We do ask that you don’t wear open-toe shoes, as they can be dangerous, during the rafting portion of the experience. You can wear sneakers or booties, or use ours.
The river portion of the journey is van supported, so we don’t need to pack your gear, and stuff it into a gear boat. You just need to change into river clothes, put on our safety equipment (life jacket, helmet, and shoes) and go rafting!
If you book early in the year, we do accept payment plans.
If you choose to do a psilocybin journey, you will also need to pay for the room and the psilocybin mushrooms you consume directly to the service center. The total cost is typically between $500 – $800 per person, and the mushrooms can only be paid for in cash on the day of the services. Several guides are also psilocybin facilitators, and their time, skills, and services around that aspect of the journey are included in the price.
100% deposit refund for cancellation 30+ days before retreat start date, or within 48 hours of booking (up to 3 days before the journey begins)
50% deposit refund for cancellation 15-29 days before retreat start date.
0% deposit refund for cancellation 0-14 days before retreat start date.
The remaining balance is due upon arrival.
If paid at the time of booking, a full refund of the remaining balance is available up to the day before your retreat start date.
A lot of this journey is in national forests and Crater Lake National Park, which we are permitted to operate in. Psilocybin mushrooms are illegal here, and go against our permits. The Oregon Health Authority governs the laws about psilocybin, which is federally illegal, though legal in Oregon under their parameters. So combining a deep nature experience in these places with a psilocybin journey causes a lot of complications, despite how naturally they fit together.
Several guides are also psilocybin facilitators, and their time and services are included in the price, though the psilocybin piece of this journey is optional. If you do choose to do a psilocybin journey, you will also need to pay for the room and the psilocybin mushrooms you consume directly to the service center. The total cost is typically between $500 – $800 per person, and the mushrooms can only be paid for in cash on the day of the services.
We do a day hike near Bend for those not interested in the psilocybin part of the experience.