March 23, 2017

Campfire Cuisine Photo Gallery (3/6/17-3/10/17)

This week in camp we had warm beautiful weather, which made helping the park with both our adopted garden and finding reptiles and amphibians for a weekend event, extremely fun! We made lots of yummy, yummy treats. Favorites included pancakes, inventing oatmeal flavors, s’mores, pine needle tea, dough boys, and quesidillas. Great teamwork from this […]

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March 23, 2017

Earth Art Photo Gallery (3/13/17-3/17/17)

If you can’t beat the wind, make kites and join it!! That was our motto in camp this week! Not only was this group creative, but tough campers, too…Our campers braved some cold temperatures to cook up yummy fire side treats to stay warm, as well as trying out flint and steel. Art projects included […]

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January 13, 2017

Winter Village Photo Gallery 1/3/17-1/6/17

Winter weather didn’t stop our villagers from building forts, banks, police stations, and more! Using our theme of village creation we were also able to practice some cross-cut sawing and learn about diagonal lashing. When we weren’t exploring, climbing, and digging around the village we had time for lots of games including some epic rounds […]

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January 6, 2017

Campfire Cooking Photo Gallery 12/19/16-12/21/16

Our campers braved some cold temperatures to cook up sweet and savory delights. We practiced slicing and dicing veggies for our hobo packets and pita pizzas, mixing and measuring for our scrambled pancakes, and strengthened our patience with doughboys, pine needle tea, and minty hot chocolate. When we weren’t busy prepping, cooking, or enjoying our hard […]

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November 17, 2016

Wilderness Survival Photo Gallery 10/31/16 – 11/4/16

This group of campers were excellent plant identifiers especially by Friday! They also built a lean to, did some map-reading, whittled, tried their hand at flint and steel, built a fire, and learned what to do in a few survival worst case scenarios. In addition to survival skills the group brushed up on their tree […]

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November 8, 2016

Chart Your Own Course Photo Gallery 10/17/16 – 10/21/16

This group was CRAZY CREATIVE! They were the perfect group to have for a Choose Your Own Adventure camp. Not only did they make interesting decisions and add innovative details to the story, but they were amazing fort architects and talented whittlers. The group enjoyed the abnormally warm temperatures, but still managed to locate a […]

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