What actually happens here
Six hours outside a day, a cabin group of eight, and an evening that ends with everyone sitting down. Here is the shape of it.
One day, start to finish
copied off the board outside the dining hall
7:15
Morning
Flag raising, breakfast, cabin clean-up
Everyone meets at the flagpole, then eats together at cabin tables. After breakfast each cabin sweeps, makes beds and takes out the bin. A staff member checks each cabin and the tidiest one gets the wooden spoon for the day.
9:30
Late morning
Two activity blocks
Campers choose on the first evening and keep the same two blocks for the week, so they get far enough in to be good at something rather than trying everything once.
1:30
Afternoon
Free swim, cabin time, all-camp game
The lake is open with lifeguards on the dock and in a boat. Cabin time is deliberately unscheduled — cards, letters home, lying on a bunk. The day finishes with a wide game across the whole property.
6:00
Evening
Dinner, campfire, small groups, lights out
Dinner, then the fire ring: songs, a short talk, and something usually going wrong in a skit. Cabins then split off to their own small group for twenty minutes. Lights out is 9:15 for Junior Week and 10:00 for Senior Week and LIT.
Everything on offer
Canoeing & kayaking
Strokes, rescues and one trip along the near shore. Boats go out in pairs, always with a staff paddler.
Swimming & waterfront
A swim test on day one sets which area a camper can use. Two certified lifeguards on duty whenever the lake is open.
Hiking & trail nights
Day hikes on the ridge for every session. Senior Week and LIT sleep out under tarps within radio contact of camp.
Archery
Supervised range behind the cabin row. Recurve bows sized for age, and a rule about the line nobody breaks twice.
Climbing wall
Thirty feet, top-roped, inspected every spring. Nobody is made to go higher than they want to.
Crafts & woodshop
Leather, lino printing and a small woodshop with hand tools. Most campers go home with a paddle or a stamped patch.
All-camp wide games
Capture the flag across the whole property, mixed by age so the eleven-year-olds and the sixteen-year-olds are on the same team.
Campfire & worship nights
Singing, a short talk, and cabin small groups afterwards. Attendance is expected; participation is never forced.
The grounds
field sketch — not to scale, the hill is steeper than it looks
Your kid's cabin
A cabin is eight campers of the same age band and one counselor, plus an LIT in the older weeks. They sleep, eat, compete and talk in that group all week. It is the unit that makes the week work: by Wednesday most cabins have a name for themselves and a running joke nobody outside understands.
The counselor is usually a university student, at least eighteen, background-checked and trained for a week before campers arrive. They are not a teacher and not a friend exactly — their job is to know your child's name, notice who is on the edge of the group, and sit with the camper who is not having a good day.
Monday is loud. Tuesday somebody is homesick. By Thursday the group has settled and the small group conversation goes somewhere real. Friday morning half of them are asking about next year.
How counselors handle homesickness →
From the album
Photos are posted each evening during a session on the parent album. Campers whose families decline photo consent are not photographed.