History

UU Young Adults from the DC area have had an annual winter retreat for many years. Throughout the 1990s and up through 2008, young adults from the DC area, especially from UUCA, had a February weekend retreat in Deep Creek Lake, MD. Typically these events were sponsored by Critical Mass, http://www.critmass.org/. They used to call it "Winter Xscape." Starting in 2004, these former young adults (mostly of Generation X) formed Fellowship X, http://fellowshipx.org/, which continues to be quite an active group.

WE'20 is the 11th winter retreat since the young-adult retreat was spun off separately from Fellowship X's winter retreat. In 2009, the UU Young Adults near DC had their winter retreat in the Shenandoah Valley in Massanutten, VA. There was no 2010 young-adult retreat, but then we returned to Massanutten, VA in 2011, and the next year's retreat was in Luray, VA (2012). In recent years, the annual retreats were held in Massanutten, VA (2013); Gifford Pinchot State Park, PA (2014); Westmoreland State Park, VA (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019); and Shenandoah River State Park, VA (2016).

Over the years, there have been Winter Escape attendees from the following congregations:

"All Souls Church, Unitarian"; "UU Church of Arlington"; "Mount Vernon Unitarian Church"; "Bull Run UU"; "UU Church of Silver Spring"; "Cedar Lane UU Church"; "River Road UU Congregation"; "UUC of the New River Valley"; "UUF of Southern Maryland"; "Davies Memorial UU Church"; "First Unitarian of Baltimore"; "UU Church of Annapolis"; "First UU Church of Philadelphia"; "Community Church of Glen Allen"; "UU Fellowship of Fredericksburg"; "Universalist National Memorial Church;" "UUC of Fairfax;" "T. Jefferson Mem. Church - UU; "Towson UU Church"

We hope to see you at Winter Escape in 2022!

• UU Young Adult Winter Escape (Facebook) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/190601480974287

• UU Young People in the DC Area (Facebook) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1626727577567308