Archive for: 2010

Our second annual staff retreat will be held at camp over the weekend of October 1-3, 2010.  Mark your calendars!  This will be a great weekend where you can enjoy fellowship and laugh over fun camp memories with your friends from the summer!  We’ll open the campsite from Friday evening [...]

Yes, it’s that time of year again!  After another amazing four weeks of summer camp, we are doing one final round of work weekends, followed by our upcoming Staff Retreat on October 1-3, and then we’ll be shutting everything down for the winter! A small, but dedicated group came up [...]

Welcome to the new 2010-2011 Camp Cherith website!  It’s more than just a new look – we’ve completely redone everything behind the scenes to make our website easier to use and easier for us to manage. There are lots of cool features coming, too.  Some of it’s going to be a surprise, [...]

The activity staff went to town one evening during Week 4, 2010 to pick up some supplies. It was late at night, and a lot of stores were closed. What to do? Where to go? This was the result!

First things first: I apologize for the lack of updates recently. All of us have been so busy getting camp ready for the kids, and now we’re right in the middle of it all, so we haven’t been updating the blogs or the website as much as we wish we [...]

Week 2 was hot. How hot? Record-breaking hot. And it didn’t let up for days. We spent as much time as we could swimming in the river, staying in the shade, and playing on a gigantic slip-and-slide. And we wished and wished and wished for rain. A nice, cool, refreshing [...]

A reminder to all staff that this year’s pre-camp training weekend will be held from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, June 4-6. This year, training will be held up at the campsite, where you’ll have an opportunity to tour the grounds, try out some of our activities, enjoy campfires and [...]

A few of us went up to camp for the May 21-24 long weekend. The weather was beautiful! Too beautiful, in fact — it was unanimously decided that work would pause in mid-afternoon so we could swim and take the kayaks and canoes down on a tour of the Clyde [...]

Check out the blog to see pictures from the past several work weekends! We’ve accomplished a lot including fresh paint everywhere and a new, wider deck in front of the main washhouse. Lots more to come — keep checking the blog!

As promised, here are some photos from the work weekends! We start with the guys who worked hard clearing trees for our future work shed:  The area in and around the Health Care Center becomes a window factory: One of the completed, painted, grading-improved washhouses: Working at replacing the deck [...]