After almost 50 years, students in the county are still going on night walks, attempting to kiss banana slugs and learning about nature for a week as part of the San Mateo Outdoor Education program.

Outdoor Education began in the summer of 1965 when Gus Xerogeanes, then a natural sciences teacher for the San Bruno Park Elementary School District, took a group of sixth-graders on a weeklong summer school adventure to the YMCA Camp at Jones Gulch near La Honda.

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