Summer

This week, we focused on developing our skills in a variety of areas, including whittling, fire-building, plant identification, snake-handling and more! We kicked off our week with some tips for safe whittling and soon were off on the hunt to find cedar and other kinds of ideal whittling woods. The search for good whittling sticks […]

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This week in Beaver camp was a blast! Campers enjoyed making nature crafts like bird feeders from pine cones, and painting wooden snakes. The adventure continued with some forest exploration that included rolling over logs to see whats hiding beneath. (There’s a whole world under there!) We also had good luck finding a number of animals throughout […]

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Our week began with some exploration of our base camps. We built forts and fairy homes and hoped some critters might move on in! We enjoyed some silly games like Doxeneye and Bum Bum Bum and some sneaking games like Beckon and Eagle Eye. At water time we enjoyed cooling off in the river and […]

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Crow campers got to really shine this week. From making art work, like decorating bandanas and making a banner for our all-girl camp, Luna, to preforming skits, throwing tomahawks, jumping into the river from the big jumping rock and playing their hardest during games, these young men got to try it all. On Thursday Crow joined Luna […]

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Luna camp was a spectacular week. From team-building activities to playing games to decorating a banner for our brother camp, Crow, we celebrated and empowered one another to be our best selves! Along with celebrating, we tested ourselves by throwing tomahawks, and jumping off the big jumping rock into the river. The week culminated with […]

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