Monthly Archives:June 2022

Towering Pines Welcomes 2022 Campers! You can’t open a summer camp without the people. The moment we have all been waiting for is FINALLY here . . . our favorite people have arrived! Dressed in their spiffy TP polos and summer-theme staff shirts, the counselors were excited to welcome campers as cars came rolling into camp on Opening Day.  Everything we’d been talking about during pre-camp training was coming to reality! The mostly perfect weather added to the delight of the […]

Around 30 TP staff have arrived safely to County D Road, and now the huge task of getting everybody ready for the 76th summer at Towering Pines begins. It goes without saying that some things just happen almost by themselves – the sun comes out, the sky turns blue and the cabins seem to gleam against the backdrop of pine and hardwood trees – but that’s just a small part of summer. Camp just wouldn’t be the same without the […]

As we gear up for another summer, we remember 2020 when we brought our leadership team together for what we called our “Summer Summit”. With an end goal of 2 camps – 1 mission – no divide, we worked towards bringing Towering Pines and Woodland together in a way that allowed us to unify our message and plan for the success of the next 25, 50, 75 years and beyond. We also agreed to disagree. Without straying from the mission, […]

It is the final countdown to the sunny adventurous days of summer that await the campers of Towering Pines.  Each year when the campers arrive, I’m in awe at the changes in these boys — not only physically, but also the development in their social and emotional maturity.  It’s evident in all of them, but especially in those fellas who are embarking upon their new role as CITs (Counselors in Training). For some campers they are transitioning to Apache for […]