Category: Cool to be You in ’22

Seeing all the action at camp, all the happy busy kids here, it’s easy to forget that there are about 30 people on the Towering Pines staff at any one time. There are many people working to make camp possible. There are the cabin counselors, the young men who live in the cabins with the campers, eat their meals with the campers, spend most of their day relating to them. These are the folks who most directly help set the […]

The end of last week marked the start of regular activities, a time when camp settles into a routine and is a good kind of busy. Campers were presented with the different options after having the opportunity to try the various instructional offerings earlier in the week, and after much thought, individuals decide on their first set of six activities. This practice of having the boys select their own activities has long been a part of Towering Pines. We believe […]

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, […]