Why to Sign up for SUMMER Camp in the WINTER Time (As told by our Jr. Counselors)

We are less than ONE MONTH away from our Early Bird Registration Deadline, on March 15th.

To mark this occasion, we are turning the blog over to our Junior Counselors, who spent some time during Leadership Weekend making this post to encourage you to sign up for Summer Camp during Early-Bird Registration.

(Several sessions of Camp are already over 2/3rds full! Bunks are going fast! Get yours now!)

So I'll now pass it off to our Junior Counselors, who are looking forward to touring you through an average summer day, in the middle of Winter:

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You can start your Camp morning...

With a nice...

ROOSTER RUN!

Then, line up in front of the Dining Hall...

In your...

GROUP LINES!

It's time for classes, were you can choose from a wide assortment like:

Archery!

Canoeing!

(With a friend.)

Or Fishing!

Next it's REC TIME, where campers can do whatever they feel like that day.

Whether they feel like...

Ping Pong?

Or some...

Karaoke?

Or just...

Chilling by the lake?

Next, we're off to...

Water Rec.

Everyone's daily dose of Lake Shawanni.

Buddy check!

And when we're all,

Safe and accounted for,

We jump right back in!

And then it's off to...

Our next activity.

Vespers! Our evening reflection.

Which isn't complete without an...

Inspirational message.

Vespers makes us happy.

Finally, 

A Closing Campfire,

With both old,

And new friends.

And of course...

No Camp week is complete...

With out...

Our...

Camp Dance!

Then it's time to raise the flag for one last morning...

Time to say our final...

"Thank yous" for the week...

And time to say "Can't wait to...

...See YOU next summer!"

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Special thanks to our Junior Counselors for putting together this blog post! They're the perfect people to remind you to be sure to sign up for Summer 2017, cause who knows Camp better than our folks who have kept returning summer after summer after summer...after summer...after summer...

...after summer...

Leadership Weekend Part II: MORE Leadership Weekend!

When last we left our intrepid Leadership Weekend-ers:

It was Camp winter-wonderland play time!

But it was also...

Camp winter-wonderland-impromptu-team-building.

Cause everyone... 

Sledding down the bowl...

Simultaneously...

Is harder to accomplish...

...Than it make look.

It's also more fun than it may look.

And of course!

There was the Camp Dog.

And he was soon joined...

By the Camp Snow Dog.

But no matter how much fun a Camp-Winter-Wonderland is...

Eventually we have to go inside and warm up.

Which is why we have the toasty Winter Headquarters!

To hang out!

Play some games.

Tell some stories!

Eat some snacks!

And prepare for "What-Now, Hot Shot!?"

Our patented Staff Training Scenarios game.

The Leadership Weekend variation,

Is run by our 2nd year Junior Counselors, to help prep our first year JCs on some of the camp craziness they just might encounter.

And by now!

We've certainly earned dinner.

Which we make ourselves!

Which is a lot of fun.

Hey! I said it's a lot of fun!

That's more like it.

Q: How many Disney quotes can fit on one "Welcome to Leadership" Weekend sign?

A: Somewhere between "A Lot" and "Too Many".

And with that, we made it to Sunday Morning!

Where our Senior Staff...

Prepare to proctor...

The ROMANCHUK.

(What in the world is the ROMANCHUK!?)

Great question, thanks for asking, parenthetical statement.

The ROMANCHUK is our Jr. Counselor final exam.

Our JC applicants compete in teams...

To find a wide variety of...

Applicable ..

And unique ways...

That Junior Counselors can help...

To support the Camp community...

In a whole bunch of different situations...

That might just arise...

During Summer 2017.

Then, after the final...

(There's a final thing after the final?!)

Of course there is.

Cause we always have the same final thing after a stay at Summer Camp.

Even if it's Summer Camp in the winter time.

And while we love traditional things at Camp...

And the same old thing...

Time after time, at Camp...

We also love brand new things!

First time-ever things!

And what we love the most...

Is when we can combine both of those.

And so it was, when we had our first-ever...

(That anyone present could recall, at least...)

Both time-honored...

And brand-new...

Thank You Circle in the middle of a snow storm. 

And that idea kind of sums of the whole idea of what Leadership Weekend really is. 

A brand-new version of the same ol' thing. 

It's a whole bunch of folks...

Who've spent a lot of time at Camp...

(Even grown up here a bit...)

Who are looking forward to working toward...

And creating...

More of the same ol' thing...

(Great summers at L.G. Cook 4-H Camp...)

In a brand-new way...

Playing a new role...

Giving back to Camp...

Helping to make that same...

Classic American Summer Camp experience they enjoyed so much...

For a brand-new generation of campers...

In the care of a brand-new generation of Junior Counselors...

Who have just finished their training...

At Leadership Weekend 2017.

NEXT TIME: Well, that's clearly the end of Leadership Weekend. There can't be more posts from Leadership Weekend.

Incorrect!

Next time, there's MORE FROM LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, as we turn the blog over to a group of our Junior Counselors who want to explain why YOU should sign up for Summer 2017 before our Early-Bird Deadline on March 15th. Stay tuned!