When Nature
Chooses Violence
Chooses Violence
While beach camping on an island known for wild horses, the horses came and raided dinner, stole the hamburger/hotdog buns and later in the night, pulled down the tent.
Who is Eric B.?
The one and only time this camper's dad dragged her camping, it rained all night and flooded their tent. She slept on the bench seat of his truck and cried when he made her use a bucket as the bathroom. NEVER AGAIN!
Hint: Network Access
Who is Kristi?
This camper fell off her horse at camp.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Katie F.?
This camp dad got to take his kids camping through a summer program when they each turned 6. They ziplined 40 feet from a tower into a lake. They each tackled obstacles and fear, all in different ways.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Joe?
This camper scaled Angel's Landing with a 60lb backpack.
Our camper was on an 8th grade camping trip in the Florida Everglades, some boys on the bus were trying to scare everyone about snakes. Later, those same boys had a brown water snake in their cabin the first night and they screamed bloody murder.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Candace?
This camper tried camping with his wife and babies, in Northern MN, on Lake Superior...in a tent...in 40 degrees. They left their tent at the State Park to go to a hotel. They left the next day.
Hint: Network Access
Who is Eric E.?
This summer camp counselor was always up for taking on challenges by the campers (repelling off 80 feet cliffs, high ropes, etc.). After a white-water rafting trip, the counselor accepted a chili dog contest to eat the most number of chili dogs over lunch. The record was 16 - our counselor ate 14. Let's just say his head was out the window on the 30 minute ride back to camp.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Daniel?
This camper went to a remote lake house with family after COVID. Her grandparents sang songs from their own days at camp in the 1940s and 1950s.
Who is Ali?
This camper attends a Jeep Jamboree. The last one had 20 jeeps, who all refused to go up a section of a 30 degree hill with 7 foot ledge half way up. But not our camper - he went up and over with both passenger tires off the ground.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Kevin?
This camper's friend went to grab a bottle of wine out of a cooler at a campfire, but did not see the GIANT spider crawling on the bottle. When he saw it, he launched the entire bottle into the woods and they never saw the bottle or the spider again.
Who is Jade?
This camper took his kids camping in Leadville. It was raining, and cold. The kids kept complaining "Are you done yet?" and "Why is it taking you so long?". Later, he bought a hard-side trailer that requires no elaborate set up because he couldn't get rid of his kids.
Hint: Network Access
Who is Brian?
This camp counselor worked at a camp where they had to assist the campers with horse rides every day. A stubborn horse that hated giving rides was stung by a bee and took off at full speed with a 6 year old dangling off holding on for dear life. Thankfully the kid was ok.
Who is Jackie?
This camper's family spent a week at the lake each summer. Her grandpa coordinated a fishing tournament, one for adults, one for kids - which was the highlight of the week!
Who is Meg?
This camper did a Spartan race in the woods
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Amber?
This camper turned camping into a competition by counting mosquito bites to see who had the most.
Who is Rossalyn?
This camper hates camping, and had to take her kids camping with Girl Scouts over Mother's Day Weekend. There was a huge rainstorm and everything was muddy - it took years to get the mud out. Who plans troop camping on Mother's Day weekend?
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is La Tanya?
This longtime horseback camp counselor fondly remembers a weekly helmet safety video. The helmet came in handy and saved her life after falling headfirst off a horse. She is still a helmet safety nut!
Hint: Network Access
Who is Lisa?
This non-camper spent most summers on the lake. Her favorite memories include being with her dad and grandpa going out fishing in the early mornings. It was so magical.
Who is Katie H.?
After college, this camper went to their first national park and took an unmarked "shortcut" during a hike. The muddy trail gave way, they slipped and held onto a tree root to make it safely back down. Her friend sprained an ankle. They learned the importance of staying on designated trails and having proper footwear.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Liu?
When this camper was a teen, he and his friend slept in a tent unknowingly surrounded by poison sumac. The resulting rash appeared days later all over his body.
Who is Ken?
This camper was stranded on an island, in the middle of a river during a thunderstorm, in a tent.
Hint: Network Access
Who is Jim?
Winner Takes it All: This camper had a troop leader that stole troop funds under the guise of taking the troop camping. He still took them camping, but in a busted Cadillac, no tents, no showers, no food and they wore the same clothing for 3 days. Other troops questioned if they had been kidnapped and helped them. Our camper caught a respiratory infection and poison ivy on day 3 of 7, which cut the trip short.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Anthony?
Maybe not so warm and fuzzy - this camper went to a summer day camp with her brother and sister. At camp, there was a baby picture contest. Her sister won for prettiest baby and her brother won funniest baby. Our camper did not win anything and is still scarred.
Hint: Legal Affairs
Who is Denise?
During a senior camping trip which had a requirement to "rough it", this camper and her group had to hike to their campsite, dig their own latrine and create a tent out of the supplies they had with them.
Who is Teri?