Category: Where I Thrive in 1-5

Happy Spring everyone! It’s March again and we all know that means in the camp world – less than 100 days to camp!  It also means the start of the  NCAA Basketball Tournament (better known as March Madness).  The President of the United States admits his basketball brackets are already busted!  Well, we decided that instead of basketball brackets, we would make our own camp activity brackets.  We filled it with some of your favorite Towering Pines activities, for you […]

Towering Pines (and Woodland) is in the midst of designing a new camp brochure  – let’s just say that it was time to update the old one!  I have to admit that this process hasn’t been as easy as I thought it would be back in the fall when we embarked on this project.  I guess I thought that we would select some of our best photos from recent summers and then provide the details of the what, when, and […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Cabin 6 (Cheyenne)! During the month of March, I often think of Kermit the Frog and the song, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”.  While Kermit is referring to the color green in his song, I am reminded of a state of being.  When you are “green” at something, it often means that you are new.  There are many times in life that we are put in a new situation, whether it be changing schools, joining a sports team […]

Happy New Year  – Where I THRIVE in 1-5! Camp in the Off-Season by Matthew J Dellinger The wind was howling. The trees groaned and creaked, strained by the raging north winds. All around me was evidence that the weather can torment us on a whim. Icicles formed on my beard as my breath and lungs froze.  I don’t particularly enjoy cold weather, but on this day I was not bothered. In this place I felt more content than in my […]