August 5, 2024

Fire Skills Deep Dive Photo Gallery

This camp week was dedicated to mastering fire craft. Campers had a chance to practice different types of friction fires including the bow drill, the pump drill, and quartz and steel striker fires. When we weren’t trying our hand at primitive fire skills, we had a blast cooling off in the Eno River and playing plenty […]

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August 5, 2024

Best of the Bigs! Photo Gallery

Campers did a little bit of everything this week as the group hit all of the camp classics! Each morning included a fun game like Defeat the Lich or Bakweli while the afternoons consisted of creek stomping to new water spots.

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August 5, 2024

Games, Games, Games! Photo Gallery

The group had a lot of fun, fun, fun during their week of games games games at Umstead State Park this week! They played running games like Werewolf, hiding games like Camouflage, team games like Defeat the Lich, and still had time for the creek each day!

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August 5, 2024

Crawdad Photo Gallery

Campers got very crafty this week as they had chances to create their own Crawdads out of different materials. When not creating their own, time was spent looking for the real deal in our creek spots while enjoying the shade.

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August 1, 2024

Schoolhouse of Plunder Photo Gallery

Aye Mateys – we had arrrguably the best week of the summer this week! We learned tips and tricks to sail the seven seas in kayaks, canoes and paddle boards. When we weren’t perfecting our techniques we were playing games where we plundered treasure, used pool noodle pirate swords, and paddled away from angry sharks! […]

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August 1, 2024

Raise the Rustic Roof Photo Gallery

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and we had a full week to create structures and fortresses from the forest. A classic Schoolhouse pastime took center stage as we created constructions with branches, logs, rocks, and rope. Campers tapped into their creativity as they designed the dwellings of their dreams and the skills required to […]

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